Did you know the exhaust that billows from vehicles causes significant problems for sea stars? While most understand that the industrial smoke pouring into the air has a negative effect on our planet, who knew that it directly affects the chemistry of the ocean and the well-being of echinoderms like sea stars, sea urchins, and brittle stars?

Forget meeting our Maker, the question now being asked is: have we become our Maker? Or is John Craig Venter simply exaggerating the importance of his team's latest achievement?