Quebrada uma importante barreira: A Science publicou hoje a obtenção do primeiro organismo desenvolvido inteiramente a partir de um genoma sintético.
Ou seja está aberta a era do desenvolvimento de seres vivos a partir de planejamento in silico.
Science 21 May 2010: Vol. 328. no. 5981, pp. 958 - 959 DOI: 10.1126/science.328.5981.958 |
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GENOMICS:
Synthetic Genome Brings New Life to Bacterium
For 15 years, J. Craig Venter has chased a dream: to build a genome from scratch and use it to make synthetic life. Now, he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute have realized that dream. In this week's Science Express, they describe the stepwise creation of a bacterial chromosome and the successful transfer of it into a bacterium, where it replaced the native DNA. Powered by the synthetic genome, that microbial cell began replicating and making a new set of proteins.
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