Happening on the DL ...

http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/m...



It's barely a footnote in these articles on synthetic life, but there

are serious researchers, at Harvard and other places, who think they may

be able to produce self-replicating artificial ribosomes before the end

of 2010, and then start tailoring them for industrial applicati...