Yes friends, the headline posted above is on the front page of the Wall Street Journal today.
Heralding a potential new era in biology, scientists for the first time have created a synthetic cell, completely controlled by man-made genetic instructions, researchers at the private J. Craig Venter Institute announced Thursday.
"We call it the first synthetic cell," said genomics pioneer Craig Venter, who oversaw the project. "These are very much real cells."
Created at a cost of $40 million, this experimental one-cell organism, which can reproduce, opens the way to the manipulation of life on a previously unattainable scale, several researchers and ethics experts said. Scientists have been altering DNA piecemeal for a generation, producing a menagerie of genetically engineered plants and animals. But the ability to craft an entire organism offers a new power over life, they said.
See it here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559004575256470152341984.html?mod=WSJ_hp_editorsPicks
How long do you believe God is going to remain merciful and stay His hand of wrath as we attempt to produce a "menagerie of genetically engineered plants and animals".....and humans?
Story on CNN says...
ReplyDeleteVatican calls synthetic cell creation 'interesting'
SEE IT HERE
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/22/vatican.synthetic.cell/index.html?iref=allsearch
The University of California-Berkeley's incoming freshmen will get DNA tests instead of summer reading assignments, in a program meant to educate students about healthy behaviors. wikimedia commons/Human Genome Project
ReplyDeleteFirst universities started using RFID chips to track students' attendance. Now they want their DNA.
SEE IT HERE:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-05/berkeley-students-give-us-your-dna