From Artificial Genome to Artificial Life: Hold Your (Synthetic …
Wired News - Jan 24, 2008
As explained by fellow Wired Science wordsmith Alexis Madrigal, JCVI researchers next need to combine the synthetic genome with a cell-to-cell chromosome …

Scientists Create Synthetic Genome
The Associated Press - Jan 24, 2008
… if this new artificial Mycoplasma genome can boot up, too — by putting the DNA into a living cell to see if takes over and becomes a synthetic organism. …

Scientists develop synthetic lifeform
Globe and Mail, Canada - Jan 24, 2008
Ensuring the synthetic genome does not essentially reject its host shell is among the hurdles researchers have described. Stephen Davies, an assistant …

Scientist unveils man-made genome, key to creating life from scratch
San Jose Mercury News, USA - Jan 24, 2008
The synthetic genome contains all the instructions that an organism - in this case, a modest bacteria - needs to live and reproduce. In the next step, …

Scientists Create First Synthetic Bacterial Genome
Science Daily (press release) - Jan 24, 2008
As a measure to differentiate the synthetic genome versus the native genome, the team created “watermarks” in the synthetic genome. These are short inserted …

First Synthetic Genome Ready to “Boot Up”
io9, CA - Jan 24, 2008
Getting the synthetic bacteria to “boot up” and reproduce. They must transplant the synthetic genome into another cell so that it can use the existing …

Scientists Create Synthetic Genome
Hartford Courant, United States - Jan 25, 2008
Caplan anticipates the technological benefits will come faster than what has followed the much-ballyhooed sequencing of the human genome, since bacteria are …