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[Drugzillaonline.com - Pharmacy Blog] Is This The Beginnings Of Artificial Life?: In what many believe to be a case of creating artificial life, American scientists have found a way of replication a bacterium's 582,970 base pair genome which should allow for the creation of biofuel-manufacturing bacteria - in other words, building bacteria from scratch that might produce fuel for things like cars. It is the largest man-made DNA structure ever made.

 [No One Special ; Nothing Important] Is this the beginning? Or the end?: But other scientists remain cautious, saying Venter and his team are still a long way from being able to create artificial life. They point to a tell-tale footnote in the study which details a problem in slotting in one of the cloned genes.

 [Wired Science] What Have You Made for Me Lately: The Rise of Applied Biology: The technologiespioneered in Japan and at the Venter Institute for genome constructionare relatively slow and expensive. We still need to develop "one step"genome construction methods in order to reduce the costs and turn timeof genome construction.

 [Wired: Wired Science] What Have You Made for Me Lately: The Rise of Applied Biology: Our own Carl Zimmer did an excellent job scaling down the announcement to fit within the grand narrative of science as discovery in his Dissection column, "Artificial Life? Old News":.

[Parts, Structures, Systems and Outcomes] WRFest 20Jan08(Politics & Policy): Take the Next Step: Culture section - one on the searches for new forms of artificial life that could be as big a breakthru as Pharmaceuticals, Plastics and Electronics were post-WW2. Another on Europe's strangely peaceful interlude since then, which is fascinating inasmuch as it talks about the Continent that brought us all our World Wars and now is the most peaceful (albeit artificially).

 [pseudo intellectual] hetters @ 2008-01-18T02:13:00: non-life, and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally. A physical characteristic of life is that it feeds on negative entropy.[1][2] In more detail, according to physicists such as John Bernal, Erwin Schrödinger, Wigner, and John Avery, life is a member of the class of phenomena which are open or continuous systems able to decrease their internal entropy at the expense of substances or free energy taken in from the environment and subsequently rejected in a degraded form (see: entropy and life).[3][4]

[Mirror of Justice] Humanae Vitae at 40: In the process, one of the stranger ironies of the contraception debate of the past generation has been this: Many feminists have attacked the Catholic Church for her alleged disregard of women, but the Church in Humanae Vitae identified and rejected sexual exploitation of women years before that message entered the cultural  mainstream. 

[Blah3 Feed] Today’s Headlines: Researchers a step closer to synthetic lifeIt's another step in the quest to create artificial organisms: Scientists have synthesized the complete DNA of a type of bacteria. The experiment, published online Thursday by the journal .

 [Jazzroc's Weblog] JazzRoc and YouTube’s “Chemtrailers”: The price of space mirrors and artificial trees is FAR too high, rocketed sulfur FAR too risky, only this idea and ocean phytoplankton feeding make sound practical and economic sense, can be begun TODAY, and carried out in WEEKS

[ED-Antibiotics.com | Prescription Drug. Blog. Information. -] What Is Antibiotic?: Unfortunately, a combination of the tendency for antibiotics to be viewed as a commodity and prescribed on the basis of lowest cost, Bayer's inability to follow up with another 'blockbuster' discovery, and a general downturn in the international pharmaceutical business forced Bayer into a major downsizing in 2000-2001. Faced with the imminent expiration of its patent rights to ciprofloxacin in the early 2000's and the predictable loss of market share to generic ciprofloxacin, Bayer has resorted to the usual strategy of pharmaceutical companies in such a situaton;

[bields0 blog] Breastfeeding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: With virtually no exceptionsbreast milknourishment However, experts disagree about how long to breastfeed to gain the greatest benefit, and how much more risk is involved in using artificial formulas.A mother may breastfeed her infant, .

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