Four decades ago, I used to spend hours watching the computer simulation called "Life" play itself out on my Atari computer screen. That simple - yet powerful program showed how a few fundamental rules can not only cause order to be created out of chaos, but also give rise to self-replicating structures.
Craig Ventor, leader of one of the teams that decoded the humane genome has developed a much more sophisticated version of that game. Ventor and a team of scientists has actually created a form of artificial life in a test tube that is derived from a software code stored on a computer.
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Author: G. Charles Watson
