The J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Maryland has announced that as of May 21, 2010, that they have created the first synthetic living cell.
What started off with moving single genes, they began moving genes over and changing the different functions inside the cell.
they have now created a living cell by replicating another cell using man made bits of DNA.
There were some errors in the process, and there were several delays, but none of them could cared less about those problems when they finally solved the problems and watched as the cell grew and started making its own proteins that were identical to their nature made counter parts.
The current uses for this, even though it is an artificial life form, it is being though of as a potential way to help develop medicine, used to study bacteria and how they spread, and even a new way to fight pollution biologically.
Many concerns have attached themselves to this issue, One is of the sustainability of the cell, which has yet to be seen, and the other is of ethical boundaries.
It raises the question, If we can synthesize simple life, is it only a matter of time before they can safely synthesize us?
Despite these issues, they broke some enormous grounds, and companies the world over are giving them more than enough praise and all of them are wanting to develop their own synthetic life, from life forms that can eat pollution to one who secretes fuel as waste product.
May 21, 2010 may be known in the future as a day that medical science was changed forever.