US scientists close to creating artificial life: study

[Billy Idol Jr]

"WASHINGTON (AFP) - US scientists have taken a major step toward creating the first ever artificial life form by synthetically reproducing the DNA of a bacteria, according to a study published Thursday.

The move, which comes after five years of research, is seen as the penultimate stage in the endeavour to create an artificial life form based entirely on a man-made DNA genome -- something which has tantalised scientists and sci-fi writers for years."

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I think that Bush needs to have a preemptive air strike on these nutballs called scientists who are going to end up having us all enslaved to robots within 60 years.