Ought Oh. Don't we have enough Monsters Among Us?

Using off-the-shelf chemical compounds, scientists for the first time have constructed the entire genome of a bacterium, a key step toward their ultimate goal of creating synthetic life forms, researchers reported Thursday.

The artificial DNA was nearly identical to the natural version on which it was based – with minor modifications to identify it and render it harmless to people, according to the study in the journal Science.
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