Toyota Invents Cars based on Artifical Life

Toyota announced plans today to build an electric vehicle at the recently closed New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, California. Tesla will partner with Toyota, providing electric drive technology, and producing its own Model S sedan at the plant.

It is already being described as "one of the most important scientific achievements in the history of mankind" - a new, entirely artificial life form created in a laboratory.
It is not a clone, or a genetically modified organism, but a synthetic living cell.
It is being hailed as a huge scientific step, but some are saying it is a step too far.
The cell was created in the laboratory of American scientist Dr Craig Venter, who told Newsnight that it was a breakthrough that would benefit humanity.