Sentences with phrase «replicating synthetic cell»
* Correction: Venter did not derive a self - replicating synthetic cell, as this article previously stated, but a synthetic genome which was used to control a self - replicating cell.
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The NRC report comes less than three months after Craig Venter and his colleagues at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., published their manufacture and insertion of a synthetic bacterial genome into a closely related bacterial cell which was then able to self - replicate.
The synthetic poliovirus cDNA was transcribed by RNA polymerase into viral RNA, which translated and replicated in a cell - free extract, resulting in the de novo synthesis of infectious poliovirus.
Powered by the synthetic genome, that microbial cell began replicating and making a new set of proteins.
Obama called for the study in May after a team led by biologist J. Craig Venter reported that it had inserted a synthetic genome into a self - replicating cell.
In May 2010, the J. Craig Venter Institute announced that its lab had built the first synthetic, self - replicating bacterial cell — that is, researchers inserted a synthetic genome, which did not exactly match the DNA sequence of any natural genome, into an existing working cell; the cell accepted the synthetic genome and reproduced.
«My favorite is the one we cited in the manuscript: «Viruses are entities whose genomes are elements of nucleic acid that replicate inside living cells using the cellular synthetic machinery and causing the synthesis of specialized elements that can transfer the viral genome to other cells.