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The Mystery of the Minimal Cell, Craig Venter's New Synthetic Life Form
• WiredPeel away the layers of a house--the plastered walls, the slate roof, the hardwood floors--and you're left with a frame, the skeletal form that makes up the core of any structure. Can we do the same with life?