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...decades.Synthetic biology will be a fact of the 21st century—the question is whether governing bodies will be prepared. The infrastructure to deal with safety concerns needs to be put in place now to avoid future problems.Venter and his team have already succeeded in creating a synthetic chromosome??based on the DNA sequence of the active bacterium Mycoplasma gentitalium. Their artificial chromosome was built entirely from available chemicals and has been christened, Mycoplasma labortorium. In theory, the chromosome could be transplanted into an empty bacterial cell and replicate itself thereafter. Synthetic Genomics has already filed...

Author: By James M. Wilsterman | Title: New Life, New Rules | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...public service includes $14 million of funding to graduate students in these fields, and his commitment to advancing the sciences at the University has led to increased funding and his suggestion that every student must know the now-infamous “difference between a gene and a chromosome?? has led to a curricular review...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, | Title: Where Are the Humanities? | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

From a purely scientific perspective, in the end, the fact that an eight-celled embryo is really tiny and doesn’t look like you makes no difference at all. That embryo is you, right down to the last chromosome??you at three days old, or three hours. Before conception, you did not exist; after conception, you did. Anything else is simply superstition...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Send In the Clones | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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