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HISTORIC MOMENT. "Scientists report the first successful implantation of fully synthetic genome. The manmade genome was more than one million base pairs long." https://lnkd.in/e9ZJKP5 View in LinkedIn

FROM CODE TO ORGANISM. "We can now go from information and get a reproducing organism. It lays down the gauntlet for us to learn how to engineer genomes." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/synthetic-genome-cell/ View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL GENOME TRANSPLANTATION. Craig Venter created synthetic DNA on a computer and booted up a disabled cell sack. "Using the tools of synthetic biology, scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute installed a completely artificial genome inside a host cell without DNA. Like the bolt of lightening that awakened Frankenstein, the new genome invigorated the host cell, which began to grow and reproduce, albeit with a few problems." https://lnkd.in/e9ZJKP5 View in LinkedIn

POESIS. "It's not genesis, it's not as if mice are coming from a pile of dirty rags in a corner...The correct word is poesis, human construction." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/synthetic-genome-cell/ View in LinkedIn

WORKING IN THE DARK. "Even Venter acknowledges that syn3.0’s genome, although new, was designed by trial and error, rather than being based on a fundamental understanding of how to build a functioning genome." http://www.nature.com/news/minimal-cell-raises-stakes-in-race-to-harness-synthetic-life-1.19633 View in LinkedIn

ARRIVING AT GO (Monopoly). "It is a big deal," geneticist and technology developer George Church of Harvard Medical School says of the achievement. "It's not incremental, but it's not final either." Creating the first synthetic cell. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/synthetic-genome-cell/ View in LinkedIn

FLABBERGASTING UNKNOWN. "With nearly all of its nutrients supplied through growth media, syn3.0’s essential genes tend to be those involved in cellular chores such as making proteins, copying DNA and building cellular membranes. Astoundingly, Venter says that his team could not identify the function of 149 of the genes in syn3.0’s genome, many of which are found in other life forms, including humans. “We don’t know about a third of essential life, and we’re trying to sort that out now,” he says." http://www.nature.com/news/minimal-cell-raises-stakes-in-race-to-harness-synthetic-life-1.19633 View in LinkedIn

SYNTHIA. "Synthetic biology is likely to move from construction of new biochemical pathways towards construction of entirely novel organisms." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

FUNCTIONAL ARTIFICIAL DNA. "We refer to the cell we have created as being a synthetic cell because it is a cell controlled by a genome assembled from chemically synthesized pieces of DNA." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/synthetic-genome-cell/ View in LinkedIn

START WITH CODE. "We now show that it is possible to reverse this and synthesize cells starting from this digitized information." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/synthetic-genome-cell/ View in LinkedIn