Science Kicks Nature’s Ass, Creates New Species From Scratch

No, that isn’t the plot of a new sci-fi movie.  It actually happened.  A group of scientists at the JC Venter Institute have successfully designed a complete genome for a living, self-replicating creature and brought it to life in a lab. Luckily, it is not the shark-bear-octopus pictured above, but a lowly bacteria.  Still, this is an entire new species of bacteria, designed on a computer and brought to life.  This has never been done before, and is a big fucking deal.  Designer micro-organisms are now real, and the implications for this breakthrough are staggering.  For better or worse, shit is about to get interesting.