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Rauha is offline Rauha
2010-05-21 , 22:08
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Originally Posted by nilchak View Post
Yes this is not really Life from scratch - but synthetic DNA in a real bacterium cell.
Nothing new about synthetic DNA in bacterial cell. I've personally geneticly modifield bacteria with synthetic DNA many times.

It's more about the amount of information contained in the used transforming DNA, I.e using whole genome. It's nice new method for doing genome level genetic modification. It can be used in biotechlogy for massive genetic modofication and creating new bacteria strains for all sorts of cool stuff (bioenergy etc). One day it might be one of the methods used for creating 'new' species.


Originally Posted by nilchak View Post
But most of the time, its these bad starts which pave the way ultimately for big discoveries and breakthroughs.
It's very nice start and interesting experiment.