Scientists create artificial life

[Chuft-Captain]

The genie's out of the bottle...

I was going to post this in Petit Bistro, but due to the significance of this development, I think it should belong here rather than relegated to purgatory...( after all, biology and chemistry at their basest level boil down to physics anyway ).

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