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Dr. Craig Venter Creates First Cell Controlled Entirely by Synthetic DNA

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By James DeGiulio -- After a 15-year effort, the team of Daniel Gibson (at right), Hamilton Smith, and Craig Venter (below left) have created the first cell controlled by a purely synthetic genome. In a press release and accompanying press conference, Dr. Venter described the converted cell as "the first self-replicating species we've had on the planet whose parent is a computer." As reported in the May 20 issue of Science, in an article entitled "Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome," the research team at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland designed 1,078...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).