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A giant step toward manmade life

Broadcast: Midmorning, 03/25/2008, 10:06 a.m.

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Scientists have stitched together the chemical components of an entire bacterium. Midmorning looks at the ethical implications of this feat, and finds out what other building blocks of life they've discovered.

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  • Jeffrey Kahn: Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota.

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