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Craig Venter's "Designer" Cells

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Innovations in Artificial Life - Craig Venter's
Craig Venter's "Designer" Cells
 Published: Jan 26, 08
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Biologists have announced the creation of a new synthetic chromosome as an advancement towards generating artificial life.

Craig Venter and his team aim to transplant the new strand of DNA into a living cell. They have already achieved a similar concept that has proven they can transplant a strand into a cell in order to change its species. However, this new work aims to cause the cell to grow and reproduce.

Venter says that once they have produced a ‘designer’ cell in this way, they can use it to create alternative energy sources or tackle climate change by soaking up CO2. Venter claims that an artificial fuel producing micro could be the first trillion dollar organism.

"If the experiments are successful we could enter a new design phase of biology" "When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of these processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design". (guardian)

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rocketranger on Jan 26, 08  0 Trends   2,582 Comments
Dr Frankenstien? Good for Agricultural, for Medical use??? R&D;scary If abused. Brave New World 2008.
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