• Question: have you ever created life

    Asked by ktho2222 to Tomasz, Matt, Aoife on 20 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Matthew Tomlinson

      Matthew Tomlinson answered on 20 Nov 2013:

      Er, I have 3 children so technically yes! In the lab, no. I’ve grown cells from pieces of donated tissue, but they were already alive, I just made them grow. There are some researchers in America, in particular a guy called Craig Venter, who have created an artificial bacteria using DNA they made, but nobody has created an animal cell in the lab.

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