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Post by aqt on Jan 14, 2009 18:46:22 GMT -5
SUNY Stony Brook www.azonano.com/details.asp?ArticleID=1346Building Viruses from Segments of DNA - Recent Research Projects In 2002, researchers at Stony Brook (the State University of New York) synthesised the 7,440 letters in the poliovirus’s genome using mail order segments of DNA. It took the Stony Brook researchers three years to build a live polio virus from scratch. Less than two years later, a team led by Craig Venter (formerly of the Human Genome Project) was able to synthesise a slightly smaller virus in just three weeks, raising the prospect of rapid assembly of artificial micro-organisms - and the possibility of designing dangerous bio-warfare agents from scratch. Building a New Type of Bacterium Using Lab-Manufactured DNA Venter, who heads the Institute of Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA), is now building a new type of bacterium using DNA manufactured in the laboratory. His team is modifying DNA from Mycoplasma genitalium, a bacterium that has the smallest number of genes of any living cell, with the goal of reducing it to only those genes necessary for life. The researchers will insert the minimal life form back into a normal bacterial cell that has been stripped of its DNA.
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Post by skyship on May 24, 2016 1:29:44 GMT -5
just remembering and observing.
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