Craig Venter - It's Alive!

Move out of the way, Dr. Frankenstein... Craig Venter and his posse have finally managed to successfully create synthetic life, foh real!

If you've followed Venter's work for the past decade or more, you've probably already known it was just a matter of time before he managed to pull this off, and now he's finally done it. The following clip is an excerpt of the press conference in which he shared this feat of science with the world.

And if you really need to get your nerd on, here is the full press conference.
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