Here is Carolyn Abraham's article about Synthetic Biology from the Toronto Globe and Mail, "Playing God in Running Shoes (subscription required to get past the first page)."  Full text here, no subscription required.  Note: I'm not a professor at the UW, as suggested in the article, but rather a senior scientist in the Electrical Engineering Department.  Otherwise, a fine article that goes into not just the technical difficulty inherent in building new organisms but also explores ethical implications of the whole endeavor.  I'm not so sure, though, how Drew Endy is going to feel about being described in the story title that way...