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SEVERE
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ARTIFICIAL LIFE is SPAWNED
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Indicator Historical Trend
Today
2017-01-23
| Grade | Date | Headline | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEVERE | 26 Jan 2026 | Scientists Use AI to Create a Virus Never Seen Before | [UK Daily Mail] |
| SEVERE | 26 Aug 2025 | Scientists Create New Life Form | [MetroUK] |
| SEVERE | 30 Nov 2021 | Xenobots: Programmable frog stem cells spontaneously replicate | [UK Daily Mail] |
| HIGH | 20 Apr 2019 | Scientists Create 'Living' Machines that Eat, Grow, and Evolve | [The Next Web] |
| HIGH | 30 Nov 2017 | Man-made DNA used to create semi-synthetic strain of bacteria | [AP] |
| HIGH | 02 May 2017 | Scientists secretly near to synthesizing human DNA | [CNBC] |
| HIGH | 12 Mar 2017 | Five designer chromosomes bring synthetic life a step closer | [NewScientist] |
| SEVERE | 02 Mar 2017 | Artificial human life could soon be grown in lab after embryo breakthrough | [UK Telegraph] |
| LOW | 08 Feb 2017 | Synthetic cells pass bacterial Turing Test | [Chemistryworld] |
| MOD | 30 Jan 2017 | Synthetic cells convince living bacteria that they're alive | [Seeker] |
| MOD | 23 Jan 2017 | Organisms created with synthetic DNA pave way for entirely new life forms | [UK Guardian] |
