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Dec 22 2009 06:46am

he ever-pioneering Dr. Craig Venter and his Institute have just published their latest genetic feat in Science.

The creation of a synthetic organism and related work being done by the Venter Institute has been running the press/blogs for quite some time now. The organism, also known as Synthia, is not yet a reality but the genetic structure seems well on it’s way.

Dr. Craig Venter doesn’t see himself as playing God, it’s more like using the building blocks of life to build new life forms.

http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/synthetic-bacterial-genome/press-release/

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Dec 22 2009 12:38pm

Interesting find, thanks.

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Dec 22 2009 11:11pm

Hope he can make me a furbie

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Dec 23 2009 09:27pm

They say synthetically made yet they are assembling the DNA from other organisms?

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Dec 24 2009 10:32am

Quote (Pootmasta_P @ Dec 24 2009 01:27pm)

They say synthetically made yet they are assembling the DNA from other organisms?

... dipshit

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Dec 25 2009 01:00am

will be fun

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Dec 30 2009 12:35pm

Quote (The_Pulverizer @ Dec 22 2009 10:11pm)

Hope he can make me a furbie

A FUCKIN FURBIE? WHY! those things suck ass... like saying i want a teletubbie! At least make something useful, like a gremlin.. so u can feed him n watch him terrorize ur neighbors!

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Jan 1 2010 04:43pm

Didn't Miller & Urey do that like 50 years ago?

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