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New Life Forms Now Created
Quoted: PhysOrg news: US scientist to announce 'artificial life' breakthrough: report
Craig Venter has built a synthetic chromosome using chemicals in his laboratory Britain's Guardian newspaper reported today!!!!!!!!!!!
"he is to announce the discovery within weeks and could possibly unveil it as early as Monday.
The breakthrough, which Venter hopes could help develop new energy sources to combat global warming, would be "a very important philosophical step in the history of our species."
"We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before," he added.
The chromosome which Venter and his team has created is known as Mycoplasma laboratorium and, in the final step of the process, will be transplanted into a living cell where it should "take control," effectively becoming a new life form."
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Big Bang 2.0
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October seems likelyQuoted: Tests have cleared the way for the start-up next month of an experiment to ...
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Quoted: PhysOrg news: A midsection between the head and the long tail of sperm contains mitochondria, organelles that generate a cell's power. But sperm have also developed a second energy source to power their long tail. They employ a process known as glycolysis, which breaks down glucose to derive ATP, which cells use for energy.
The pathway for glycolysis requires 10 enzymes. Using special "targeting domains," sperm tether these to a fibrous sheath that runs the length of the tail. In this study, the researchers are trying to re-create this glycolytic pathway by modifying each protein's targeting domain so that they can instead bind to nickel ions on a manufactured chip.
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