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Creating Life

Creating "Synthetic" Life

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Dr. Jon LaPook

Once scientists become nimble at synthesizing the human genome, will they use that technology wisely? Who decides how and when the technology should be employed? And how can those decisions be enforced?

Wind, Meet Whirlwind

David Horton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
David Horton

The idea that an invented species, alien to all environments, can be casually introduced in large numbers to, say, clean up an oil spill, without any unintended consequences flies in the face of hundreds of years of experiments.