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[IPWatchdog] JCVI Creates World's First Genetically Engineered Self-Replicating ...: I am smiling ear to ear.  You just couldn’t make this stuff up.  A team of humans creates genetically altered and a self-replicating synthetic cell using a computer.  I suspect that computer was running some pretty powerful and sophisticated software.  So the anti-patent crowd should be sufficiently whipped into a frenzy over this story top to bottom.  It hits all the hot button issues, life, genetics, software, ethics and it rolls them all into one.  But while we might relish the anguish of those in the anti-patent community, this type of scientific advance should not be taken lightly because it has the potential to fire up those with an anti-patent agenda and could also fire up religious groups as well.  The coming together of such strange bedfellows would result in an alliance with enormous political power.  So innovators need to pay attention and be vigilant.

[IBN Top Headlines] Indians among creators of 'artificial life' - Tech News - IBNLive: Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., and San Diego, Venter's team aimed to go further. A few years ago, the researchers transplanted an entire natural genome ”” the genetic code ”” of one bacterium into another and watched it take over, turning a goat germ into a cattle germ.

[Drudge Retort] Scientists Create Artificial Life | Drudge Retort: The process that they used is actually becoming common enough that companies that make oligos (small DNA pieces) are offering services to completely synthesize genes of interest with mutations in place as an alternative to other methods of creating mutant proteins.

[The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech] New Tech: Artificial Life Forms Created that Evolve Intelligence: in a computer world called Avida, and replicate using strings of coded computer instructions instead of DNA, they are similar to real life microbes: they compete with each other for resources, replicate, mutate, and eventually evolve to become artificially intelligent life forms. Unlike real-life Darwinian microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected. 

[Greener Buildings] Will Synthetic Biology Lead to Truly Living Buildings? | Buildings ...: Parametric modeling, 3D printing, tissue engineering, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, self-organized manufacturing, artificial intelligence, artificial photosynthesis, swarm robotics, self-replicating machines, self-healing materials, programmable matter, thermodynamics and systems theory. All of these individual fields have great potential in many applications.

[WAMU: Art Beat] WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio - News Features for Friday ...: The recipient cell started out with synthetic DNA and its original cytoplasm, but the new genome "booted up" that cell to start producing only proteins that normally would be found in the copied goat germ. The researchers had tagged the synthetic DNA to be able to tell it apart, and checked as the modified cell reproduced to confirm that new cells really looked and behaved like M.

[Untitled] » Blog Archive » Playing God or Breakthrough?: is a “cell controlled by a genome assembled from chemically synthesized pieces of DNA.” In addition, the cytoplasm or the liquid part is of the host cell. To further clarify, DNA was synthesized first from yeast, then was modified in-vitro and in-silico, and then transplanted into a bacterial cell.

[Dvorak Uncensored] » Creating Self-Replicating, Synthetic Life ”” Are We Now God ...: # 26 sargasso said, on May 21st, 2010 at 9:55 am. Biotechs insert man made genetic material into human, yeast and bacterial cells each day and have been doing it for ten years.

[Breaking News,World News,Latest Updates,Asia,Europe,America,Africa,Politics,Sports,Disaster,Economy] World's First Man-Made Life Created At J. Craig Venter Institute ...: mycoides genome was isolated from the yeast cell and transplanted into Mycoplasma capricolum recipient cells that have had the genes for its restriction enzyme removed. The synthetic genome DNA was transcribed into messenger RNA, which in turn was translated into new proteins.

[chungmatdo's blog] - chungmatdo's blog: Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, has called the notion of a technological singularity "intelligent design for the IQ 140 people...This proposition that we're heading to this point at which everything is going to be just unimaginably differentt's fundamentally, in my view, driven by a religious impulse.

[Boing Boing] Craig Venter creates synthetic life form - Boing Boing: In his opinion [4] Judge Sweet said: "The information encoded in DNA is not information about its own molecular structure incidental to its biological function, as is the case with adrenaline or other chemicals found in the body...this informational quality (of DNA) is unique among the chemical compounds found in our bodies, and it would be erroneous to view DNA as 'no different' than other chemicals previously the subject of patents....DNA, in particular the ordering of its nucleotides, therefore serves as the physical embodiment of laws of nature - those that define the construction of the human body”¦the preservation of this defining characteristic of DNA in its native and isolated forms mandates the conclusion that the challenged composition claims are to unpatentable products of nature."

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