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A scientist who has a synthetic life form has put the science world in a . Geneticist Craig Venter unveiled a major breakthrough last week when he showed the world a new form of life he created in the . He made his artificial creation from a stem cell, biochemicals and . Dr Venter his new organism has DNA that has never on Earth before. The cells he made will the way for more complex ones. Venter believes manmade life will be an important part of all science in the future. In 2007, he said: “Synthetic [life] is going to become the for making anything.” He believes it will provide amazing new for diseases and help in the fight against climate change.

Environmentalists are up in over Venter’s work. They believe it is a major to our existence. Campaigners are fighting to ban any form of synthetic life from getting into the wild. One campaigner, Jim Thomas, expressed his to Britain’s ‘Independent’ newspaper: "Synthetic biology is a high-, profit- field, building organisms out of parts that are still understood. We know that lab-created life forms can and become biological , and that their use threatens natural biodiversity," he said. Mr Thomas is worried about what oil companies will do with Mr Venter’s work, saying: "Most worrying of all, Craig Venter is this powerful technology to the likes of BP and Exxon to hasten the commercialisation of synthetic life-forms."