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Trends Update — Synthetic Biology: JCVI’s First Synthetic Cell (or, A Goat Walked Into a Lab)

World, meet "Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0", 1.08-Mbps of synthetic life. Today’s issue of Science contains an article by scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute, who have synthesized a Mycoplasma genome from scratch and transplanted it to a recipient cell. Those recipients have since reproduced using entirely the synthetic DNA. In the quest to create novel [...]

Biotech Trends Update — Synthetic Biology: Smallest Genome May Not Provide the Best Roadmap

One of the trends we’ll be following for 2010 is synthetic biology — efforts to create entirely novel organisms and systems from “scratch.” A fundamental question in the quest to create novel life forms is what the minimal genome is that will comprise a living organism. Scientists have been looking for, and at, existing organisms [...]

Biotech Trends in 2010: Get An Early Start at OGI’s Synthetic Biology Conference

In updating this blog’s Trends in 2009 series for 2010, I noted that synthetic biology has garnered recent attention in The New Yorker and The Economist and it may be poised to attract more commercial attention.   Here’s a great chance to get a jump on the topic… Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) and Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) are [...]

Biotech Trends in 2010: Crowdsourced Edition

We’ve been running with a number of trends since the blog started early in 2009, and though many of them will continue to be critical stories in 2010, I’ve been turning my thoughts lately to possible additions for next year: Synthetic biology (this article at the Economist got a good bit of coverage); and The [...]

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