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ODT: Ethics and ‘Dr God’
An editorial in the Otago Daily Times looks at the announcement of the first fully functional synthetic genome,which was inserted […]
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Kiran Chug and Matt Callman write in the Dominion Post about the successful creation of a synthetic genome, announced last […]
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With the news of the successful creation of a functioning synthetic genome, the New Zealand Herald sums up some of […]
Continue readingExperts on Craig Venter’s synthetic biology breakthrough
Scientists have for the first time created ‘synthetic cells’ that can survive and reproduce on their own. A team lead […]
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