Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome

Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome

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Craig Ventner has created the first Genome from scratch - essentially accomplishing the inverse of the human genome project - by taking an almost 600,000 long base pair sequence from a computer and turning it into a DNA strand. This allows scientists to create living "robots" from scratch, and could lead to man-made biofuel producing cells.

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How awesome is this ? I'd love to see how this is put into good use. We could get hydrogen producing bacteria. They have already stated that synthetic lie could be created if it hasn't already.

Next few years are going to be awesome.

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I wouldn't mess with the perfection of life.