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I Am Creating Artificial Life, Declares US Gene Pioneer - Scientist Has Made
Synthetic Chromosome, The Guardian
 









Excerpts: Breakthrough could combat global warming  The DNA sequence is based on
the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium which the team pared down to the bare
essentials needed to support life, removing a fifth of its genetic make-up. The
wholly synthetically reconstructed chromosome, which the team have christened
Mycoplasma laboratorium, has been watermarked with inks for easy recognition. 
It is then transplanted into a living bacterial cell and in the final stage of
the process it is expected to take control of the cell and in effect become a
new life form. The team of scientists has already successfully transplanted the
genome of one type of bacterium into the cell of another, effectively changing
the cell's species.
Source: I Am Creating Artificial Life, Declares US Gene Pioneer - Scientist Has
Made Synthetic Chromosome[
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/06/genetics.climatechange ], Ed
Pilkington, The Guardian, 07/10/06

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