Did You Sleep Through the Burning Bush?

Buried beneath the daily avalanche of politics, markets, wars, celebrity scandals, and World Cup drama was one of the most important scientific advances in recent memory described in a remarkable new preprint from synthetic biologists at the University of Minnesota.

A few headlines claimed scientists had “created life.” That’s not exactly right, but something extraordinary did happen.

For nearly four billion years, every living organism on Earth has descended from another living organism. Every bacterium, oak tree, whale, mushroom, and human being traces an unbroken chain back to the earliest life on our planet. Life has always come from life.

The Minnesota team came closer than anyone before them to breaking that pattern.

Danny's note: Seems to be missing a holophrenic functionality. No small matter.

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