Scientists Build DNA From Scratch To Alter Life’s Blueprint

Social engineering pales in comparison to building brand new life forms, which is the Technocrat dream in this story. This is not just a slippery slope to ethical and moral oblivion, but more like a sheer cliff with rocks below. ⁃ TN EditorAt Jef Boeke’s lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.
But he and his colleagues are cooking up something else altogether: yeast that works with chunks of man-made DNA.
Scientists have long been a