Scientists to create life from scratch in 3

I was just watching this guy Pat Mooney of the company ETC Group on one of the major news stations talking about how they are in the process of creating life from scratch. He said they are learning how to create DNA sequences with not only the four basic building blocks, but possibly five and six. He claims that artificial life will be created within 5 years. He also claims that life, created entirely from scratch, will be created within a timeframe of 3 to 10 years.

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Check out this PDF file from their website regarding the above article:
Life from Scratch report (PDF)

Their website is: www.etcgroup.org...

Scientists to create life from scratch in 3 - 10 years!