A team of U.S. scientists is reporting that it has constructed the genome of a living organism for the first time. Assembling bits of lab-made DNA, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Maryland say they have built the genetic structure of a bacterium from scratch in the lab.
Is this similar to the Genetic Machines Engineering competition at MIT? I remember Alberta Ingenuity wanted to see a Alberta representative.
An interesting application could be an interesting article I found the other day, about a engineering a bacteria that could turn CO and CO2 into ethanol, methanol, etc.
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The lab-made genome has not so far resulted in a living microbe that functions or replicates. But Dr. Venter said it is just a matter of time before they figure out how “to boot it up” by inserting the synthetic DNA into the shell of another bacterium. (The team showed last year that transplanting the genome of one bacterium inside the casing of another could bring it to life.)
Just FYI, they haven't actually synthesized life yet. But, it is a step along the way.
Is this similar to the Genetic Machines Engineering competition at MIT? I remember Alberta Ingenuity wanted to see a Alberta representative.
An interesting application could be an interesting article I found the other day, about a engineering a bacteria that could turn CO and CO2 into ethanol, methanol, etc.
Well I basically convert oxygen to methane, does that put me on the same evolutionary level as these things?
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