Thought For The Day

  • Thought For The Day

    Creating Life

    I just got around to reading an article that was published on May 20, 2010 at Time.Com. Here is a quote from that article and you will understand my excitement (thus my hurry to read it). “It’s the ultimate science experiment, really — taking a handful of chemicals, mixing them in just the right combination and presto — life! And after nearly 15 years of such toiling in his labs in Rockville, Md., J. Craig Venter, co-mapper of the human genome, has done just that. Reporting in the journal Science, he describes a remarkable experiment in which he and the team at his eponymous institute have pieced together the entire…