05-20-2010, 03:19 PM | #1 |
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05-20-2010, 07:13 PM | #2 |
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..............and another politician is born.
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05-20-2010, 07:27 PM | #3 |
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I posted this in another thread..
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...499#post919499 .....but... http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20005533-1.html Scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute have created a synthetic cell that can survive and reproduce itself according to an artificial DNA sequence, promising designer genomes with which researchers can produce sophisticated artificial organisms. The new bacterial cell, "Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0," is the result of a 15-year, $30 million effort by genetics pioneer Craig Venter. The study, led by the institute's Dan Gibson, is reported in the May 21 edition of the journal Science. .... This is a big step! Here's the link to the Science article: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5981/958 "For 15 years, J. Craig Venter has chased a dream: to build a genome from scratch and use it to make synthetic life. Now, he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland, and San Diego, California, say they have realized that dream. In this week's Science Express (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten...cience.1190719), they describe the stepwise creation of a bacterial chromosome and the successful transfer of it into a bacterium, where it replaced the native DNA. Powered by the synthetic genome, that microbial cell began replicating and making a new set of proteins. This is "a defining moment in the history of biology and biotechnology," says Mark Bedau, a philosopher at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and editor of the scientific journal Artificial Life. "It represents an important technical milestone in the new field of synthetic genomics," says yeast biologist Jef Boeke of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. The synthetic genome created by Venter's team is almost identical to that of a natural bacterium. It was achieved at great expense, an estimated $40 million, and effort, 20 people working for more than a decade. Despite this success, creating heavily customized genomes, such as ones that make fuels or pharmaceuticals, and getting them to "boot" up the same way in a cell is not yet a reality. "There are great challenges ahead before genetic engineers can mix, match, and fully design an organism's genome from scratch," notes Paul Keim, a molecular geneticist at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff." .... |
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ITS A SIGN OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE WE"RE ALL GONNA DIE..... maybe I should go take a nap...
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05-20-2010, 08:54 PM | #5 |
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Here's a long peezy analysis:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2...ts_alive_1.php And a short-- uh, Zimmery? one: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/lo...cell-new-life/ |
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And as I read elsewhere it proves those Intelligent Design believers were right. Last edited by kennyc; 05-20-2010 at 09:23 PM. |
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05-20-2010, 09:11 PM | #7 |
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05-22-2010, 05:55 AM | #9 |
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I love this comment:
"Given an infinite amount of time and an infinite number of bacteria, one of them will genetically encode the complete works of Shakespeare." |
05-22-2010, 01:07 PM | #10 |
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If you had an infinite number of bacteria I don't think you'd need an infinite amount of time - an infinite number of bacteria would encode Shakespeare immediately.
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