Apr 192012
Combo of “awesome scientific advance” and “I’ve seen this movie.”
Synthetic DNA Created, Evolves on Its Own
This has all kinds of interesting implications. It expands what DNA could be; new organisms could be engineered with quite different capabilities than life as we know it. It also shows that a different chemistry could permit the development of life (thus: expanding the possibilities for alien life), as well as showing that supernatural explanations are not needed to explain how things like DNA could come to be.