have created the world’s first synthetic life form. It was a landmark experiment that paves the way for designer organisms that are built rather than evolved. The controversial feat has occupied 20 top-class scientists for more than 10 years at an estimated cost of 40 million dollars. And it was described by one researcher as ‘a defining moment of new paradigm in biology’.Craig Venter, ...
plan we submitted has no flaw in terms of legal and administrative procedures,” he said by telephone. In 2006, two landmark papers published by Hwang’s team on cloned human embryonic stem cells were withdrawn by the publisher Science, after the investigation panel of Seoul National University determined key data had been intentionally fabricated. An analysis by U.S. researchers late last ...