Venter did it again - creating a bacterium... (May/27/2010 )

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just fascinating.

pito on May 27 2010, 07:21 PM said:

Anyway I wonder what potential is behind this, really useful to create some organisms with great (manufacturing hydrogen and biofuels, absorbing carbon dioxide) or fearsome (new bio-weapons) abilities? Anyway it's a first step, the empty cell was there, and the genome he "just" copied and "inserted" it in the cell...

We will see.

I do remember that when they created a virus from scratch it did change the world of virology did change forever.