Re: But they synthesized existing DNA, right? Or am I missing something?
snoopcester Send a noteboard - 21/05/2010 05:28:15 PM
"The researchers started building their synthetic chromosome by going DNA shopping. They bought from a company more than 1000 1080-base sequences that covered the whole M. mycoides genome; to facilitate their assembly in the correct order, the ends of each sequence had 80 bases that overlapped with its neighbors. So that the assembled genome would be recognizable as synthetic, four of the ordered DNA sequences contained strings of bases that, in code, spell out an e-mail address, the names of many of the people involved in the project, and a few famous quotations.
Using yeast to assemble the synthetic DNA in stages, the researchers first stitched together 10,000-base sequences, then 100,000-base sequences, and finally the complete genome. However, when they initially put the synthetic genome into M. capricolum, nothing happened. Like computer programmers debugging faulty software, they systematically transplanted combinations of synthetic and natural DNA, finally homing in on a single-base mistake in the synthetic genome. The error delayed the project 3 months. "
Using yeast to assemble the synthetic DNA in stages, the researchers first stitched together 10,000-base sequences, then 100,000-base sequences, and finally the complete genome. However, when they initially put the synthetic genome into M. capricolum, nothing happened. Like computer programmers debugging faulty software, they systematically transplanted combinations of synthetic and natural DNA, finally homing in on a single-base mistake in the synthetic genome. The error delayed the project 3 months. "
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Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Scientists have created life! God reported to be "miffed"
20/05/2010 09:01:10 PM
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wait... what?
20/05/2010 09:40:44 PM
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Ummm, military technology has always been at the leading edge of research.
20/05/2010 09:57:20 PM
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I think that is what he said
20/05/2010 10:00:24 PM
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I would like to also remind that the military does not only research weapons.
20/05/2010 10:42:36 PM
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Copying one organisms DNA and putting it into another organisms cells is creating life?
21/05/2010 02:43:53 PM
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mmm, I would like to point out they did not merely COPY a creature's dna and put it elsewere
21/05/2010 04:23:52 PM
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But they synthesized existing DNA, right? Or am I missing something?
21/05/2010 04:39:23 PM
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Re: But they synthesized existing DNA, right? Or am I missing something?
21/05/2010 05:28:15 PM
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Huh, where'd you see that?
21/05/2010 05:36:39 PM
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In the original article where it was published, funnily enough
22/05/2010 03:18:36 PM
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Didn't realize you could read their articles for free at their site.
22/05/2010 03:26:52 PM
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I do believe...
21/05/2010 03:11:58 PM
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