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The production of Synthia is an effort in synthetic biology at the J. Craig Venter Institute by a team of approximately 20 scientists headed by Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith and including DNA researcher Craig Venter and microbiologist Clyde A. Hutchison III. The overall goal is to reduce a living organism to its essentials and thus understand ...
John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American scientist . He is known for leading one of the first draft sequences of the human genome [1] [2] and led the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome. [3] [4] Venter founded Celera Genomics, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI).
In 2010, as part of the Minimal Genome Project, a team of the J. Craig Venter Institute synthesized a modified version (JCVI-syn1.0) of the 1,000,000 base pair M. mycoides genome and implanted it into a DNA-free bacterial shell of Mycoplasma capricolum; [8] the resulting organism was shown to be self-replicating. [9] [10]
J. Craig Venter, synthetic biology pioneer and the private hand behind the Human Genome Project, created quite a stir two months ago when he labeled biofuels "dead" without a comprehensive carbon ...
J. Craig Venter, the human genome pioneer, today unveiled a new San Diego-based venture with an ambitious goal of providing whole genome sequencing and cell-therapy-based diagnostic services for ...
Synthetic mycoides refers to an artificial life form created by Craig Venter at the J Craig Venter Institute in May 2010. A synthetic genome was transferred into an empty cell to form the bacterium, which was capable of self replication and functioned solely from the transferred chromosomes. References
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The only requirement now is the technique to include the synthetic genome of M. genitalium into mycoplasma cells. To some extent this has become possible, the first replicating synthetic cell has already been developed by the JCVI and they are now on to creating their first synthetic life, consisting of minimal number of essential genes.