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Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life
Sep 9 2008, Danielle

It’s not as Frankensteinian as it sounds. Instead, a lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, is building simple cell models that can almost be called life.

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