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Here is a selection of press articles in English (click on the left menu to check other languages)

Anglo-american press - selected articles:

2010

• Nature News (May 2010) Sizing up the "synthetic cell"
• The Edge (May 2010) On "creation of a bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome" by Venter et al.
• TED (May 2010) Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"
  
• New York Times (May 2010) Baby Steps to New Life-Forms
• Oscillator Blog (April 2010) Xenobiology
• New York Times Magazine (February 2010) Do-It-Yourself genetic engineering
• WIRED (February 2010) Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included
  
• Science Times China (February 2010) To promote biosafety by risk assessment (English version) - (Chinese version - Chinese original)  

2009

• Nature News (December 2009) US drafts guidelines to screen genes
• Economist (November 2009) Your plastic pal
• Deutsche Welle (November 2009) Germans take part in contest to make new forms of molecular life
• Science & Technology (October 2009) Synthetic Biology: Is it safe and secure?
• The New Yorker (September 2009) A life of its own
• USA Today (August 2009) "Synthetic biology" holds promise, but doubts simmer
• TIMES online (August 2009) Artificial life is only months away
• Financial Times (August 2009) Life is transformed
• The New York Times (June 2009) New glimpses of life's puzzling origins
• The Wall Street Journal (May 2009) In Attics and closets, Biohackers´Discover their inner Frankestein
• Scientific American (May 2009) Biohackers: Brewing new life-forms in a basement near you
• Bloomberg (March 2009) Harvard Scientists’ Discovery Opens Door to Synthetic Life
• Telegraph (March 2009) Artificial life 'could be created within five years'
• DiscoveryTech (March 2009) Do synthetic biologist play God?
• The Guardian (March 2009) Geneticist in the garage
• Slashdot (February 2009) Hacking With Synthetic Biology (read the postings)
• O'Reilly radar (February 2009) Creating Biological Legos (read the postings)
  
• Financial Times (February 2009) Scientists demonstrate synthetic DNA
• Irish Times (February 2009) Benefits of synthetic biology discussed
• France 24 (February 2009) Scientists see boom for biotechnology
• Telegraph (January 2009) Algae - the slimy scum that could end the fuel crisis
• The Scientist (January 2009) Standardize what?
• New Scientist (January 2009) Rise of the garage genome hackers
• The Guardian (January 2009) Craig Venter turns from DNA to saving environment
  

2008

• GEN (November 2008) Synthetic biology finds niche in fuel alternatives
• CNN (October 2008) Synthetic biology inches toward the mainstream
• Boston Globe (September 2008) Accessible science: Hackers aim to make biology household practice
• BBC (July 2008) Patent system "stifling science"
• io9 (July 2008) Mad Science Contest: Build a Lifeform and We'll Send You to Hong Kong or Give You $1000
• Science Daily (June 2008) Synthetic Biology ethical challenges
• The Guardian (June 2008) Can biotechnology feed Africa? (read the postings)
• Times online (May 2008) Who’s afraid of a synthetic human?
• Guardian (April 2008) Biologists join the race to create synthetic life
• The New York Times (February 2008) Pursuing synthetic life
• Herald Tribune (February 2008) Making cells like computers
• Science News (January 2008) Life from Scratch - Learning to make synthetic cells
• Economists (January 2008) Artificial Life - nearly there
• New Scientists (January 2008) Artificial letters added to life's alphabet
• Herald Tribune (January 2008) Scientists manufacture genome of a bacteria
• BBC (January 2008) Synthetic life advanced reported

2007

• Washington Post (December 2007) Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms
• Esquire (November 2007) How to Make Life
• Times online (October 2007) Time to convince the public
• BBC News (October 2007) Synthetic life 'no terror threat'
• Guardian (October 2007) I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer
• IETSynBio (October 2007) Teaching bacterias how to dance
• New York Times (September 2007) How Do You Like Your Genes? Biofabs Take Orders
• The Guardian (September 2007) Scientists a step nearer to creating artificial life
• ABC News (August 2007) Scientists struggle to define life 
• Telegraph UK (June 2007) First artificial life within months
• Inter Press Service (June 2007) Genome Guru Seeks Patent on Synthetic Life Form
• Economist (June 2007) Artificial Life: Patent Pending
• Business Week US (June 2007) On The Brink Of Artificial Life
• Washington Post (June 2007) Release of Microbe Study Spurs Bioterror Worries
• Ottawa Citizen (June 2007) Creating the ethics of synthetic biology
• The New York Times (June 2007) Reader's questions: The beginnings of the synthetic life
• Herald Tribune (June 2007) Scientists transplant genome of bacteria
• Newsweek (May 2007). Scientists push the boundary of human Life
• Newsweek (May 2007). Our synthetic futures
• Bulletin Online (April 2007).  The evolution and consequences of synthetic biology
• Colbert Report (February 2007) We had computers.. VIDEO
• Bridge (February 2007). Synthetic Biology: scientists gone wild

2006

• Hamilton Spectator (September 2006). There's nothing monstrous in synthetic biology
• Wall Street Journal (August 2006). Biologists Are Looking To the Chip Industry For Production Models.
• Economist (August 2006). Synthetic biology: Life 2.0.
• Guardian (June 2006). Lax laws, virus DNA and potential for terror
• Scientific American (June 2006). Engineering Life: Building a Fab for Biology
• Forbes Magazine (April 2006). Regenesis 
• The Scientist. (January 2006). Is This Life?

2005

• Wired Magazine. Issue 13.01 (January 2005). Life, Reinvented
  

2004

• The Scientific American (April 2004). Synthetic Life