Synthetic biology promised to rewrite life—with the death of its pioneer, J. Craig Venter, how close are scientists? - Peer2Peer

Synthetic biology promised to rewrite life—with the death of its pioneer, J. Craig Venter, how close are scientists?

May 03, 2026

When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-synthetic-biology-rewrite-life-death.html

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