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25 Jan 12
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built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals
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thics of creating new species and could unlock the door to new energy sources and techniques to combat global warming
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We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before"
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has already constructed a synthetic chromosome
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lab-made chemicals, they have painstakingly stitched together a chromosome that is 381 genes long and contains 580,000 base pairs of genetic code.
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based on the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium which the team pared down to the bare essentials needed to support life, removing a fifth of its genetic make-up
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Mycoplasma laboratorium
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transplanted into a living bacterial cell and in the final stage of the process it is expected to take control of the cell and in effect become a new life form
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effectively changing the cell's species
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08 Jun 08
Adam Crowe"The new life form will depend for its ability to replicate itself and metabolise on the molecular machinery of the cell into which it has been injected, and in that sense it will not be a wholly synthetic life form."
CraigVenter biology syntheticbiology genetics genomics bioengineering artificiallife organisms energy biofuel evolution life software hardware selfreplication
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24 Oct 07
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Mike KossTom Knight at MIT was doing a similar experiment - what is the minimum set of genes needed to an artificial bactieria (or in this case - perhaps virus) to sustain itself. Quoted: Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to deci
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08 Oct 07
Lynne BCraig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth.
genetics biology evolution artificiallife chromosomes syntheticchromosomes
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Chris Kingmost definite to be used
artificial_life science genetics biology evolution technology cais Delicious-12-16-10
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07 Oct 07
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Eldritch CrankI suspect that nobody is accurately predicting what the relatively near future is going to be like.
biology biotech artificial life genetic engineering futurism
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Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth.
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Noah CarterCraig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth.
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06 Oct 07
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05 Oct 07
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