Team claims synthetic life feat
By Neil Bowdler BBC science reporter
Thursday, 28 June 2007

Dr Venter says the research brings him closer to creating synthetic lifeScientists in the US say they have taken a major step towards producing life from scratch in the laboratory.

Dr Craig Venter says in the Science journal that his team successfully transplanted an entire genome from one bacterium cell to another.

He says he hopes eventually to use the technique to create designer microbes, which could produce artificial fuel or help clean up toxic waste. the rest