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PHASE ONE. “This is the first synthetic cell that's been made," said Venter. "We call it synthetic because the cell is totally derived from a synthetic chromosome, made with four bottles of chemicals on a chemical synthesizer, starting with information in a computer." http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/synthetic-genome-life.htm View in LinkedIn
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VENTER VIEW. “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.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/13/craig-ventner-mars View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-09-30 04:16:13

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SECOND LANDMARK. “‘Minimal’ cell raises stakes in race to harness synthetic life. Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent organism. Functioning with 473 genes, the cell is a milestone in his team’s 20-year quest to reduce life to its bare essentials and, by extension, to design life from scratch.” https://www.nature.com/news/minimal-cell-raises-stakes-in-race-to-harness-synthetic-life-1.19633 View in LinkedIn
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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.” http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/synthetic-genome-life.htm View in LinkedIn
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NINETY-NINE PERCENT FAILURES. "When you work on something for 15 years, it's a great sense of accomplishment. You can imagine 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another. This, when it finally worked, we were more relieved than excited.” The first synthetic cell. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/21/venter.qa/ View in LinkedIn
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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 Feynman.” The first synthetic cell. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/synthetic-genome-cell/ View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2019-10-02 04:00:23

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