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A quest to create life out of synthetics

New science spurs high hopes, worry

By Colin Nickerson
Globe Staff / April 2, 2008

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CAMBRIDGE - It is science so new that even Harvard does not yet offer a formal course in it, although some of the field's pioneering research has been done at the university as well as down the avenue at MIT. (Full article: 1118 words)

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