The First Living and Self-replicating Synthetic Bacterial Cell

For the very first time and after 15 years of effort from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), Craig Venter and his team have managed to create a living cell which the genetic material is totally synthetic. It has been constructed using the four known chemical nucleotides (A, G, C and T) and a synthetizer. Until today, it was only possible to decode a genome and to transform it to a computer language, now it is finally possible to to the opposite.
If you have one hour time, watch the video below, which is the press release from JCVI. It is fascinating!