Great joy welled up in my heart, and I stayed outside in the damp air for a long time, dreaming of how we could start our life anew someday.

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The development, documented in the peer-reviewed journal Science, may stir anew nagging questions of ethics, law and public safety about artificial life that biomedical experts have been debating for more than a decade.

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