Month: September 2022

SYNTHETIC LIFE. “Scientists report the first successful implantation of fully synthetic genome. The manmade genome was more than one million base pairs long.” http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/synthetic-genome-life.htm View in LinkedIn

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

PARENT WAS A COMPUTER. “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.” https://lnkd.in/dfMtfwG View in LinkedIn

GENETIC WATERMARKS. "It's also the first species to have a Web site in its genetic code." https://lnkd.in/dj5EVry 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.” http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/21/venter.qa/ View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL BIOLOGY. “We call this digitizing biology...We now show that it is possible to reverse this and synthesize cells starting from this digitized information….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

HUGE STEP. “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." The first synthetic cell. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/synthetic-genome-cell/ View in LinkedIn

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

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.” The first synthetic cell. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/synthetic-genome-cell/ View in LinkedIn