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How big is Venter’s synthetic breakthrough?
Peter Griffin May 21Whenever geneticist Dr Craig Venter outlines new research he is involved in the whole world listens.
That’s because Venter was involved in one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the last 20 years – the sequencing of the human genome. The implications of that advance for the field of genetics has been huge and helped pave the way for the $1000 genome which scientists claim they are close to cracking.
Since working on the Human Genome Project, Venter’s real driving interest has been in the area of synethetic biology…
Not surprising then that the big science story of the week is that Venter and colleagues have published a paper in Science detailing how they synthesized an entire bacterial genome and used it to take over a cell...
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