Life 2.0
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A new generation of scientific mavericks is not content to merely
tinker with life's genetic code. They want to rewrite it from scratch.
By Lee Silver
Newsweek International
June 4, 2007 issue - It last happened about 3.6 billion years ago. a
tiny living cell emerged from the dust of the Earth. It replicated
itself, and its progeny replicated themselves, and so on, with genetic
twists and turns down through billions of generations. Today every
living organism-every person, plant, animal and microbe-can trace its
heritage back to that first cell. Earth's extended family is the only
kind of life that we've observed, so far, in the universe.
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