- Found in translation Back in 2003, a team of scientists translated the song It’s a Small World into DNA fragments and integerated it into the genome of the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. Canadian poet Christian Bök has now gone one better and encoded a poem into a bacteria and programmed it to make its own poetic response.
38,209 views - Let there be life: Researchers create a synthetic cell J Craig Venter and colleagues at the J Craig Venter Institute have created the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell, based on a synthetic genome transplanted into a host bacterial cell
32,936 views - carnival of evolution – 1 March 2011 Welcome to the 1 March 2011 edition of carnival of evolution. This is part of a monthly collection of online writing about evolutionary biology and its cultural and political implications, and is hosted by a different blogger every month.
11,136 views - Ozzy Osbourne’s genome… Ozzy Osbourne, one of the founder members of the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, has joined the ranks of people whose genome has been sequenced and analysed.
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