I have long been a fan of Dr Craig Venter, the American biologist and entrepreneur, most famous for his role in being one of the first to sequence the human genome. Craig Venter’s biography sits on my desk as an inspiration. Craig Venter has been pursuing the dream of creating artificial life, and last week he succeeded in doing just that when his team created the first cell with a synthetic genome! To me, that’s a huge milestone and an achievement that needs to be commended (Which I have on my blog).