Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life
www.ted.com “Can we create new life out of our digital universe?” asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon. He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into “fourth-generation fuels” — biologically created fuels with CO2… Continue reading
Craig Venter Newsnight Interview – Synthetic Life
20 May 2010 BBC2 Newsnight news.bbc.co.uk Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell. The researchers constructed a bacterium’s “genetic software” and transplanted it into a host cell. The resulting microbe then looked and behaved… Continue reading
