This is “the first self-replicating species we’ve had on the planet whose parent is a computer.”
Dr. Craig Venter -pioneer of the human genome
2010 might be looked back on as the year of the Earth's first non-biological self-replicating species. The genome pioneer J. Craig Venter has taken another step in his quest to create synthetic life by synthesizing an entire bacterial genome and using it to take over a cell.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/05/the-earths-1st-synthetic-life-could-there-be-unintended-consequences.html
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