None of these characteristics had any effect.

ECONOMIST: Neuroscience and social deprivation

And if no suitable species exists, then Synthetic Genomics's researchers will take the desirable characteristics from several and create what is, in effect, a new one.

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All but neglected in the rush of publicity are the implications, good and bad, of a game that allows the player to act, in effect, like God--fashioning people out of nothing, imbuing them with specific characteristics, providing situations and decisions that have consequences large and small.

FORBES: Brave New World