by Elio & Merry — The now fa­mous an­nounce­ment by the Ven­ter group is based on their pa­per in Sci­ence en­ti­tled Cre­ation of a Bac­te­r­ial Cell Con­trolled by a Chem­i­cally Syn­the­sized Genome. We ap­plaud this work for its im­pres­sive tech­ni­cal achieve­ment and we ac­knowl­edge its fu­ture po­ten­tial. How­ever, we find the term "cre­ation" to...