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[Wired Science] From Artificial Genome to Artificial Life: Hold Your (Synthetic ...: Venter, best-known for his work with the Human Genome Project but just as pioneering in the world of synthetic biology, is quite open about this. "We have this complete synthetic chromosome that's been sequenced and validated.
[p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media news site, updated throughout the day] Scientists one step from artificial life: Guardian Unlimited - Biologist claims significant step towards artificial life, January 25, 2008 Science - Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium Genome, January, 2008 .
[Interfaith] Artificial Life One Step Closer: The implication of this discovery is that scientists can now attempt to implant their own synthetic chromosome into a microscopic Mycoplasma bacterium, which will open the path to the creation of self-replicating man-made genes. The team, led by Dr Hamilton Smith (director of the Venter Institute’s Synthetic Biology Group), intends to replace the natural genome found in the bacterium with the one that they have created.
[Wired Science] Venter Institute's Man-Made Genome "Watermarks" Revealed: Synthetic Biology: It's Not What You Learned, But What You Made. Genetic-Engineering Competitors Create Modular DNA Dev-Kit .
[GoodShit] LIKE a striptease artist in front of an eager audience, Craig ...: As they report in this week's Science, they have replicated the genome of Mycoplasma genitalium, the species that was the subject of that original sequencing effort. It is not actual life, but it is surely the tease before the last veil finally falls away.>>>
[Science Progress] Here’s One Big Step Toward Artificial Life: succeeded in synthesizing the complete genome of a bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium. If the stitched DNA can be inserted into a cell that then replicates, it will appear to have met the criteria for the first "artificial life" form.
[Wired: Wired Science] Synthetic Bazaar or Cathedral: Intellectual Property and the First ...: The JCVI genome was copied from Mycoplasma genitalium, the second-smallest known bacteria; while JCVI scientists have already figured out how to swap chromosomes from one cell to another, they didn't do that in today's study.
[The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond] Synthetic Life: Two Down, One to Go: “Playing God” -Scientists in Final Stage of Creating Man-made Life. *Smith and his colleagues reported the assembly process in the journal Science. Links: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080125-artificial-life.html ...
[Total Format Forums] Synthetic Lifeform Advances Recorded: Dr Endy added: "Given the work already done in Japan, building genomes almost 10 million base-pairs long - I would be surprised if by 2012 it were not technically possible to routinely design and construct the genomes of any bacteria or single celled eukaryote, which also means that it will be possible to construct some mammalian chromosomes."
[blog.vortexdna.com] Synthetic life, particles, and waves: When and if Venter’s team does create a viable synthetic life form, our ignorance will remain profound. Out of 382 genes that the scientists have identified as potentially essential, 110 of them are absolute mysteries.
[Wired Science] Synthetic Bazaar vs. Cathedral: Intellectual Property and the ...: I asked Collins whether he's worried about a synthetic biology IPgrab. Said Collins, "Provided that academic groups aren't hindered fromusing that technology in their research, I'm a fan of patents.Companies at the end of the day are in the business of sellingservices."
[OPAN-AGM] PANAMA CANAL-1914: Brockman brought Craig Venter with him to the conference in Munich””the key participant in the earlier meeting. An American entrepreneur, molecular biologist, and the first person to decode the genome, he personifies the future of biotechnology. Not only that, in recent years Venter has more than doubled the number of genes in the public databases, and right before the meeting in Connecticut, he applied for a patent on the first-ever artificial life form””his Mycoplasma laboratorium, after a self-propagated cell division, will be the first life form to carry a synthetic chromosome. And according to Venter, this will likely be before the end of 2008.
[BlogEthics Purdue] I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer: The Guardian can reveal that a team of 20 top scientists assembled by Mr Venter, led by the Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, has already constructed a synthetic chromosome, a feat of virtuoso bio-engineering never previously achieved. Using lab-made chemicals, they have painstakingly stitched together a chromosome that is 381 genes long and contains 580,000 base pairs of genetic code.
[RED SOUNDING] I AM LEGEND coming soon: To create the first artificial microbe, which the scientists are calling Mycoplasma labatorium, the synthetic genome will be inserted into a related species of bacterium that will serve as a host. Previous experiments have shown that doing this cancels the genetic code of the host cells and replaces it with the added genome.
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