Craig Venter Unveils Synthetic Life

[Lauren Summerhill]

https://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_unveils_synthetic_life.html

Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science.

 

[Lexusdriver]

Thanks for the good news thread Laureen. For those of you who don't know who John is.

John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biologist and entrepreneur, most famous for his role in being one of the first to sequence the human genome[1] and for his role in creating the first cell with a synthetic genome in 2010.[2] Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research and the J. Craig Venter Institute, now working at the latter to create synthetic biological organisms and to document genetic diversity in the world's oceans. He was listed on Time magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

 

[Friend of Greekster]

yah but when is he going to make a yeast that eats oil?

 

[BEER]

yah but when is he going to make a yeast that eats oil?

lol

 

[Beenthere123]

yah but when is he going to make a yeast that eats oil?

Must you guys make a joke out of everything, I say John is also a perv like we are. Bet you he gets it 21 times a month.