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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

1010-GATC. "We call this digitizing biology." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/synthetic-genome-cell/ View in LinkedIn

DNA SOFTWARE. "Life is a DNA software system. All living things are solely reducible to DNA and the cellular apparatus it uses to run on. The DNA software both creates and directs the more visible "hardware" of life such as proteins and cells." (Craig Venter) https://lnkd.in/dmEGVWN View in LinkedIn

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE. "It's also the first species to have a Web site in its genetic code." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/synthetic-genome-cell/ View in LinkedIn

VENTER EMBEDDED QUOTES. "The man-made genetic code also includes three quotes: "To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, and to recreate life out of life" from James Joyce; "see things not as they are but as they might be" from Robert Oppenheimer via the Ethical Culture School in New York City; and "what I cannot build, I cannot understand" from physicist Richard Feynmann." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/synthetic-genome-cell/ View in LinkedIn

GENETIC WATERMARKS. "Venter and his colleagues also included four "watermarks" in the code to distinguish the synthetic microbe—dubbed Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0—from natural organisms." https://lnkd.in/dj5EVry View in LinkedIn