The film tells the story of two young scientists who engineer new synthetic creatures in the lab by combining DNA from different organisms. Only a few weeks later, the movie Splice was released in the United States (US).
At a press conference, biologist Craig Venter stated: “ This is the first self-replicating species that we’ve had on the planet whose parent is a computer.” (ABC news, 2010). Craig Venter Institute announced the creation of the first synthetic bacterium, whose genome had entirely been synthesised in the lab.
