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A new age has dawned.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on October 7, 2007 at 07:05 AM in Science | Permalink
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"the new species could lead to new energy sources and new methods for combatting global warming": but the jokes remain the same.
Posted by: dearieme at Oct 7, 2007 7:28:55 AM
It's incredible the things that Dr. Venter and his team have accomplished while performing science in the private sector. I wonder if such experiments would have been supported or even allowed in a state-funded or academic laboratory.
Posted by: A_Female_Brain at Oct 7, 2007 6:06:10 PM
Earlier this year, I heard in the news that the human genome had now been fully sequenced for the first time. I (and a few other people I know) thought "wait, had that not been done by Craig Venter and others in 2000 already?" In fact, it had not. Craig Venter had just announced so.
I'm having the a similar sensation now reading this article (the one in the Guardian, not the one on Fox news, which omits quite many details), just the other way around. An artificial chromosome? Doesn't sound new to me. A few rudimentary thoughts on the ethics of artificial organisms? Heard it before.
This is one of the occasions where I can't help but think that the most impressive part of the endeavours of Craig Venter is not the scientific part (yes, comparable projects are going on in academic labs) but rather the work of his marketing department.
Posted by: Arne B at Oct 8, 2007 3:50:59 AM
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