Scientists have successfully created an artificial living cell. It basically is a bacterium's "genetic software" that can be transplanted it into a host cell to gave rise to a new entity.

According to the US scientists the newly produced microbe resembled and acted like the species "dictated" by the synthetic DNA, a significant progress in the development.

The researchers believe that this development may lead them to device bacterial cells that have the potential to produce medicines and fuels and control the ongoing atmosphere mayhem via absorbing greenhouse gases.

Initially a similar method was experimented by Dr Craig Venter and his colleagues who made a synthetic bacterial genome, and transplanted the genome of one bacterium into another. Now, the team of scientists has amalgamated both the methods resulting in a "synthetic cell."

According to the team who developed this followed a simple procedure that involved copying of bacterial genome followed by sequencing its genetic code and then utilizing "synthesis machines" to chemically construct another copy of the same.

This was replicated to form a number of copies which were contained and controlled by the constructed, synthetic DNA.