[extropy-chat] Virus built from scratch

[Emlyn O'regan]

Definitely they only built the DNA. Still, I think that counts; you start
with a prokaryote and a bunch of bases, and end up with a happily
replicating virus; pretty solid stuff as far as I'm concerned.

Emlyn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alfio Puglisi [mailto:puglisi at arcetri.astro.it]
> Sent: Friday, 14 November 2003 11:40 PM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Virus built from scratch
> 
> 
> 
> It not clear from the article if they only built the DNA 
> molecule, or the
> whole virus. I suspect the first :-) Anyone has more information?
> 
> Ciao,
> Alfio
> 
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> 
> >Hey Brett, here's your replicator (admittedly dependent on 
> external cellular
> >machinery) built by people from scratch:
> >
> >
> >Virus Genome Built from Scratch
> >http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-11-13-5
> >Researchers have built the genome of a tiny virus from 
> scratch in a feat
> >they say will improve the speed and accuracy of constructing 
> synthetic
> >organisms.
> >
> >
> >Emlyn
> >
> >
> >
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