It's alive! It's alive!(Science) (possibility of creating of life in a laboratory) (Brief article)

Art often imitates life, but sometimes it works the other way around. In what seems like a page out of Mary Shelley's classic 1818 novel, Frankenstein, some biologists and chemists now say the day is near when they'll be able to create life in a laboratory. Though the molecule they hatched in a test tube four years ago isn't quite alive, it can endlessly replicate and evolve, which most biologists agree is fundamental to the definition of life. Why try to create life in a test tube in the first place? Scientists hope that a new, artificially created kind of life will...