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How to Program a Human – Part 1: What makes us human?

Earlier this month, I had read that a scientist, J. Craig Venter, created the first synthetic life form. While he didn’t create the entire bacterium from nothing, he did create the DNA from chemicals and a computer program to assemble the 4 base-pairs into a string of 600,000 pairs, using known sequences to produce the […]