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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110106145311.htm

future of synthetic biology, discuss

>> No.2311874

>"What I believe is most intriguing about our work is that the information encoded in these artificial genes is completely novel -- it does not come from, nor is it significantly related to, information encoded by natural genes, and yet the end result is a living, functional microbe,"

>> No.2311978

Actual science gets posted and no one replies.. /sci/ you disappoint me.

This reminds me of the breakthrough earlier last year where they synthesized the genome of a bacteria and transplanted it into another empty cell and it lived.

>> No.2311982

>>2311978
Mycoplasma laboratorium you mean, right?

Exciting stuff, it's a shame a bat-shit insane man like Venter got it. (Sorry if I seem a little bitter, I remember thinking of this in like 9th grade bio and thinking I would be a millionaire one day lol)