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[ScienceBlogs : News] Pure Pedantry : Expected in 2009: An Artificial Organism: One likely announcement, which may happen any day of the year, is of the world's first artificial living creature. The announcer will almost certainly be Craig Venter, an American biologist who has been working on making such a creature for over a decade.

[PESWiki - New pages [en]] Directory:Biofuels:Research and Development: *''' ''' - Craig Venter, who has created an artificial chromosome, believes designer genomes could eventually lead to .

[WE Blog] Open thread 12/27 | WE Blog: So it is notable that President-elect Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his Inauguration next month has brought forth hyperpartisan invective from the Democratic left. It has spent the past week conveying to the world its disappointment and disgust with the choice of Pastor Warren because he opposes gay marriage and abortion.

[Genetics and Health] Artificial life close to being created by J Craig Venter: Once the laboratory produces living, replicating bacteria using this artificial chromosome, Venter scientists plan to strip away genes systematically, to find how few are truly necessary to sustain life. It is largely an academic exercise, but in the process the scientists hope to refine the tools for building living organisms from this fundamental base, and custom-design them to perform certain tasks - such as manufacturing fuel.

[Science Channel - Is This a Good Idea?] Science Channel - Is This a Good Idea?: Should Scientists Create ...: There's really no way to prevent the eventual creation of artificial life forms, because even if the U.S. or EU outlaw it, the research simply will migrate to countries where it is unregulated. Frankly, I would rather accept a certain amount of risk, in order for the U.S. to maintain its present lead in synthetic biology research.

[jaanix - tune the web - tuned for markaddleman] The World Question Center 2009: Craig Venter may be on the brink of creating the first artificial life form, but one game-changing scientific idea I expect to live to see is the moment when a robotic device achieves the status of "living thing." What convinces me of this is not some amazing technological breakthrough, but watching some videos of the annual RoboCup soccer tournament organized by Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

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