Doom! Dooooom!

[leanhaunsidhe]

This news story starts out with the phrase  "Scientists say they have reached an important milestone in a quest to build a life-form from scratch."

Grab your pitchforks and torches!  Or start stockpiling canned food for the superplague that turns everyone else into zombies!  Or. . . hell, it's like a history of disaster science fiction ;-)