Sentences with phrase «replicating synthetic genome»

Following the J. Craig Venter Institute's announcement in May 2010 that it had synthesized the first self - replicating synthetic genome, the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released a report examining the potential benefits and ethical pitfalls of synthetic biology.

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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.

* 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.

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.