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Science Channel Taps Paula Zahn for CREATING SYNTHETIC LIFE: YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

May 26, 2010

Contact - Joshua Weinberg
VP, Communications
240.662.5274

Science Channel has tapped Emmy® Award winning journalist Paula Zahn to host CREATING SYNTHETIC LIFE: YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED, premiering Thursday, June 3, 2010, at 9 PM (ET).  This exclusive one-hour special further explores important ethical, scientific and societal questions surrounding Dr. Craig Venter's recent announcement that he and his team have created the first living, self-replicating synthetic cell.

Prior to CREATING SYNTHETIC LIFE: YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED is the exclusive Science Channel world premiere of CREATING SYNTHETIC LIFE at 8 PM (ET).  Narrated by Emmy® Award winning actor and "Lost" alumnus Michael Emerson, the one-hour special embeds viewers in the failures, successes and breakthrough moments of Dr. Venter, Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, Dr. Clyde Hutchison and JCVI researchers as they endeavored to create a synthetic single-celled organism.