Creating First Synthetic Life Form

Complexity Digest 2005.52 - 15.01

05/12/30

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Creating First Synthetic Life Form, Globe and Mail Update

Excerpts: Work on the world's first human-made species is well under way at a research complex in Rockville, Md., and scientists in Canada have been quietly conducting experiments to help bring such a creature to life. Robert Holt, head of sequencing for the Genome Science Centre at the University of British Columbia, is leading efforts at his Vancouver lab to play a key role in the production of the first synthetic life form -- a microbe made from scratch.

Source: Creating First Synthetic Life Form
[ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v4/sub/MarketingPage?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FRTGAM.20051219.wxlife19%2FBNStory%2FspecialScienceandHealth%2F&ord=1135856112695&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=true ], Globe and Mail Update, 05/12/19