by Shmuel Razin — I would like to raise an ex­cit­ing is­sue that has be­come very hot re­cently and has been of great in­ter­est to me for a long time: the pos­si­bil­ity of syn­the­siz­ing a liv­ing cell from its com­po­nents. My story starts in 1964. I spent then my first sab­bat­i­cal with Prof. Harold Mo­rowitz at Yale Uni­ver­sity. Let me first re­mind you that these were the early six­ties, times of rev­o­lu­tion­ary ideas. It was the time of...