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2002年埃克森-美孚出资6亿美元资助“文特尔基金会”的科研项目:利用人造生命技术,制造能够将阳光转化为氢原料的人工细菌,从而彻底解决人类能源危机。2010年5月20日,美国科学家克雷格·文特尔引领其团队宣布培育出第一个由人工合成基因组控制的细胞,创造了地球上首个人造生命形式。此一科研成果意味着人类得以更自由地设计生命,从而将人类对自然的控制提升到一个新的高度。但合成细胞是否等于合成生命,科学界尚存争议。而人们在惊叹生命科学迅猛发展,寄希望于由此解决食品短缺、能源危机等人类社会发展所面临的诸多问题时,也产生了打开“潘多拉盒子”的深切不安。
In 2002, ExxonMobil invested 600 million U.S. dollars to fund the Wentell Foundation’s research project: Using artificial life technologies to create artificial bacteria capable of converting sunlight into hydrogen, thereby completely solving the human energy crisis. On May 20, 2010, US scientist Craig Venter led the team to the announcement of the first cell controlled by the synthetic genome, creating the first man-made life on Earth. This scientific achievement means that human beings are able to design their lives more freely and take humankind’s control of nature to a new height. However, synthetic cells are equal to synthetic life, the scientific community is still controversial. However, when people marveled at the rapid development of life sciences and placed their hopes on resolving many problems facing the development of human society such as food shortage and energy crisis, people also felt uneasy about opening the “Pandora’s Box.”