[extropy-chat] Virus built from scratch

Alfio Puglisi puglisi at arcetri.astro.it
Fri Nov 14 14:10:14 UTC 2003


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:
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>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.
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>Emlyn
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