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GENOME TRANSPLANTATION. "In 2007 Venter transplanted the genome of one Mycoplasma bacterium into another." https://lnkd.in/e9ZJKP5 View in LinkedIn

THIGMOMORPHOGENESIS in trees, a summary. "Influence of mechanical stimuli on plants recognized at least since Theophrastus (300 B.C.E.)." https://lnkd.in/dDZREnK View in LinkedIn

CRAG VENTER TED talk on his synthetic cell. "Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science." https://lnkd.in/dezjjjG View in LinkedIn

HUMAN-DIRECTED EVOLUTION. "Molecular technologies are now adding a further layer to this information flow. For the first time in 3.7 billion years, the Central Dogma has acquired an additional step, to include digital storage of biological information." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION. "Such technologies might become a significant mechanism for creation and manipulation of organisms, allowing directed and ‘artificial’ evolution." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

FUTURE SHADOW. "De novo construction of larger, eukaryotic genomes will clearly come about within a few years, as this needs only technical advances in methods that already exist." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC GENOME. "The steps to RNA and onward to phenotype have been achieved with the construction and cellular transfer of the first chemically synthesized bacterial genome." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

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RADICAL MODIFICATIONS. "Since then, biotechnology has moved on, making it possible to synthesize bacteria, and organisms are genetically modified almost every day...In addition, all the code for synthetic DNA is stored on computers." http://www.pcworld.com/article/252103/computer_viruses_could_cross_frontier_into_biological_realm_researchers_say.html View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC VIRUS. "In 2002, scientists were able to synthesize the poliovirus." https://lnkd.in/ddTvp9R View in LinkedIn