03-12-2014, 07:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-12-2014, 07:33 AM by stevebowers.)
My daughter is a genetics student, and she's somewhat less impressed with this than I am. These synthetic organisms use pre-existing organisms to replicate artificially produced strands of DNA; without that pre-existing cell, the genome they had sequenced would just sit there doing nothing.
We are a long way from being able to design and build entirely new organisms from inorganic building blocks.. But I think it is a good start.
We are a long way from being able to design and build entirely new organisms from inorganic building blocks.. But I think it is a good start.