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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

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

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

CRAG VENTER TED talk on his synthetic cell. https://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_unveils_synthetic_life?language=en 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

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

GENESIS. “Another common complaint about his 2010 work – that it shows the scientist is intent on "playing God", Venter seems happy to embrace. "In the restricted sense that we had shown with this experiment how God was unnecessary for the creation of new life, I suppose that we were.” https://lnkd.in/dmEGVWN View in LinkedIn

PRINTING CELLS. “Looking further ahead, Venter intends DBCs to print living cells, using an automated and improved version of the process behind his 2010 breakthrough synthetic cell. Work on that is currently underway, with the focus on creating what he calls the "universal recipient cell", a kind of biological blank slate able to receive any synthetic genome and come to life.” (DBC = Digital Biological Converter). https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/13/craig-ventner-mars View in LinkedIn