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Synthetic biology promised to rewrite life—with the death of its pioneer, J. Craig Venter, how close are scientists?

phys.org·André O. Hudson·29 days ago
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Nature DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07289-x"> Credit: David McLeod. Nature DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07289-x When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome , it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life. For the first time, DNA—the molecule that carries the instructions for life—had been written on a computer, assembled in a laboratory and used to control a living cell . The achievement suggested something profound: Life might not only be understood but designed. A biologist widely recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to genomics, including leading efforts to sequence the first draft of the human genome , Venter and his team's successful creation of the first synthetic bacterial cell is considered pivotal to the field of synthetic biology .…

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