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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

NOT FROM SCRATCH. "We created a new cell. It's alive. But we didn't create life from scratch. We created. As all life on this planet is. Out of a living cell." (Craig Venter). Omne vivum ex vivo: "all life [is] from life". http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/21/venter.qa/ View in LinkedIn

Project to map human brain from womb to birth releases stunning images https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/10/project-to-map-human-brain-from-womb-to-birth-releases-stunning-images?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

CREATION OF ARTIFICIAL LIFE. "So it's the first living self-replicating cell that we have on the planet whose DNA was made chemically and designed in the computer. So it has no genetic ancestors. Its parent is a computer." This historic moment changed biology forever (Craig Venter). https://lnkd.in/dfMtfwG View in LinkedIn

BOMBSHELL. In 2010 Craig Venter claimed he had created a new branch to the tree of life, Synthia. The reaction of the public and of fellow scientists was equally split between superlative praise and a deluge of denunciation. But history changed forever. https://lnkd.in/eQz5W6N View in LinkedIn