Month: September 2022

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

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

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

FIRST SYNTHETIC CELL. "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." https://lnkd.in/e9ZJKP5 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

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

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

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

1010-GATC. "We call this digitizing biology." 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