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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

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