Giant step toward artificial life
Giant step toward artificial life
(01-24) 12:13 PST SAN FRANCISCO — American scientists have built from scratch a synthetic chromosome containing all the genetic material needed to produce a primitive bacterium – a giant step toward the creation of artificial life.The feat is described in an online edition of the journal Science released Thursday by researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md. Venter is the Bay Area-born maverick whose laboratory techniques in the late 1990s led to the speedy decoding of the human genome, the entire set of genetic instructions for making a person.
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