Researchers yesterday announced they had engineered a cell directed by genetic material sequenced entirely by humans, a breakthrough in an area of study that some observers fear could be harnessed for developing biological-weapon agents, the Washington Post reported yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 9, 2009).The work could someday produce microbes capable of consuming waste or creating fuel material, according to the newspaper.
President Barack Obama yesterday called for the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to "undertake ... a study of the implications of this scientific milestone, as well as other advances that may lie ahead in this field of research."
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