Timeline Thursday 20 May 2010

Thursday 20 May 2010

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2010 First synthetic cell created Craig Venter builds life from scratch Craig Venter's team announced the creation of the first synthetic bacterial cell on May 20, 2010, assembling its entire genome from chemicals and inserting it into a cell. It was the first life form with a computer-generated genome.