'Frankenstein' doc creates life?

Professor Paul Freemont, of Imperial College London, called it "a landmark study".   He said: "This is a key step in the industrialisation of synthetic biology, leading to a new era."   Dr Eckard Wimmer, of Stony Brook University. New York, warned: "The possibility of misuse exists." And Dr David King, of Human Genetics Alert, said scientists were "playing God".   Dr Venter insisted the bacterium he used is found in cows, not people. But a relative of it causes pneumonia in humans.