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Monopolists of the Genetic Code?
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| Last week, Craig Venter created a media
| frenzy â and a frenzy of bioethical hand-
| wringing â when he announced the creation
| of the first âsynthetic cell.â In reality,
| his team of researchers had created the
| first synthetic genome, the operating
| system of the cell. They had, in effect,
| switched the operating system of a
| particular cell to a new operating system
| that they had synthesized and edited.
|
| Though many of the headlines talked of
| Venter being God and having created life in
| the lab, that is not an accurate way to
| describe it. Venter started with a
| particular naturally occurring cell and
| effectively, de-compiled, analysed and then
| painstaking edited and reassembled that
| cellâs genome to create a version of the
| cell never found in nature. Researchers had
| already synthesized the genome of the polio
| virus, creating a genome that would
| actually âproduceâ a live virus that
| infected mice in the lab, but the size of
| that initiative was several orders of
| magnitude smaller. The significance of what
| Venterâs team did lay in the scale of the
| enterprise and the mastery of the code that
| it demonstrated. It is as if I took your
| computer, copied the operating system,
| figured out what each part of that system
| did, pruned, cut and edited its functions,
| and then reloaded a substantially edited
| system back into the computer â a version
| which actually proved capable of running
| it.
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http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2010/05/28/monopolists-of-the-genetic-code/
Monopolists of the Genetic Code?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4883637c-69d7-11df-8432-00144feab49a,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F4883637c-69d7-11df-8432-00144feab49a.html&_i_referer=
Benign for a change:
Scientists create first version of synthetic cell
http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2010/05/27/scientists-create-first-version-of-synthetic-cell/
Recent:
Lab to be first 'open-source' for genetic parts
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| Bioengineers from Stanford and UC-Berkeley
| are ramping up efforts to characterize
| thousands of molecular players and processes
| critical to the engineering of microbes.
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| With seed money from the National Science
| Foundation, bioengineers from Stanford and
| UC-Berkeley, are ramping up efforts to
| characterize thousands of molecular players
| and processes critical to the engineering of
| microbes, so that eventually researchers can
| mix and match these âDNA partsâ in synthetic
| organisms to produce new drugs, fuels or
| chemicals. Theyâll do this in a lab in
| Emeryville, Calif., called BIOFAB.
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http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/25889659/lab-to-be-first-open-source-for-genetic-parts.html
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