At the Virus Laboratory of the University of California, two researchers announced this week that they have taken an infectious virus apart and reduced it to a mixture of utterly dead chemicals, then put it together and made it infectious again. Drs. H. Fraenkel-Conrat and Robley C. Williams do not want it said that they have "created life"; a simple virus is alive in a special sense only. But they do believe that they have come closer to one of science's major aims—knowing the nature of life. Says Dr. Williams: "We have no doubt...
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