>> "ProtoLife will develop evolutionary chemistry with the long-range 
>> goal of creating artificial cells from nonliving raw material, and 
>> programming them with desired chemical functionality."
>>
>>       http://www.protolife.net/
>>
>> Yeah, Right.
>> A good trick, IF you can do it.
>>
>> $6M seed capital sought, so they're not exactly big time.
>
> Of course you realise who is going to jump with the money. New 
> organism, undetectable by conventional methods, all applications are 
> open, not burdened by existing patents, cannot be traced to a 
> geographical area

Indeed. If they started to have prospects.
But, at present, the available toolkit and truly vast selection of 
working examples is so comprehensive and so powerful that even the 
daunting task of learning to drive it without the users manual is far 
far less challenging than starting from scratch ones-self.

        RM

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