How-To: Make a peristaltic pump from an appliance timer
This clever hack from Nederlander Ruud Setteur is only available in Dutch, but the pictures are worth many thousands of words.
synthesis
First replicating life from artificial DNA reported
The original cell was not completely “synthetic,” but its DNA was. So this is not quite the ultimate realization of the project of organic chemistry, i.e. to create living matter from completely lifeless matter, but it is a giant step in that direction.
