Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome

Craig Ventner has created the first Genome from scratch - essentially accomplishing the inverse of the human genome project - by taking an almost 600,000 long base pair sequence from a computer and turning it into a DNA strand. This allows scientists to create living "robots" from scratch, and could lead to man-made biofuel producing cells.

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