Month: September 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

INTERNATIONAL SYNTHETIC YEAST RACE. "The scientists are joining an international effort to build the world's first synthetic yeast genome from scratch, using groundbreaking techniques that are set to transform the field of biology. Experts from Britain, the US, China and India aim to make synthetic versions of all of the organism's 16 chromosomes by 2017, and incorporate them into living cells a year later." https://lnkd.in/dYfARSK View in LinkedIn

NEW TREE OF LIFE. "Build a fully functioning mirror cell made of molecules they themselves would synthesise. To put it another way: don't just create new branches on the tree of life, as Venter was doing with his tweaks of existing cells. Instead, create an entirely new tree." https://lnkd.in/d_9HSZe View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues the contemplation of plant responses to physical stimulus, and the genes and biochemical pathways involved. Science in the West has been a latecomer to this story, which has been known in ancient Japan for a very long time. But science did catch up, and the ancient myth is validated. View in LinkedIn

PLANT TOUCH RESPONSES. "Over many years of evolution, plants have developed very sensitive mechanisms through which they can perceive and respond to even subtle stimuli, like touch. Some plants respond behaviourally to the touch stimulus within seconds, while others show morphogenetic alterations over long periods of time, ranging from days to weeks." https://lnkd.in/dbRzjKM View in LinkedIn