# Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life

"Can we create new life out of our digital universe?" Craig Venter asks. His answer is "yes" -- and pretty soon. He walks through his latest research and promises that we'll soon be able to build and boot up a synthetic chromosome.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2008
- Runtime: 15 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/CraigVenter_2008)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/CraigVenter_2008?play=1)