Thursday, January 24, 2008
Scientists Create Gene Map For Synthetic Life
Researchers in Maryland took the first critical step to creating artificial life by assembling the entire genome of a living organism — a bacterium. Sunstroke author David Kagan wrote about a similar experiment by desperate scientists in the book Medscan. The microorganism has the smallest genome of any living organism, with 485 working genes.
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