Synthetic life, what for and what future?

Armando Aranda-Anzaldo

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This text answer the question, posted by the editor, on the philosophical, scientific and social problems followed from the synthetic ensemble of the modified genome of the bacteria M. Mycoides, announced in May 2010 by the J. Craig Venter Institute.


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Referencias


See video at http://www.ted.com: “Craig Venter unveils synthetic life” (YouTube)

Cho, M.K. and Relman, D. A. (2010), “Synthetic “life”, ethics, national security,and public discourse,” Science 329: 38-39.

Gibson, D. G., et al. (2010), “Creation of a bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome,”Science 329: 52-56.

Aranda-Anzaldo, A. and Dent, M. A. R. (2003), “Developmental noise, ageingand cancer,” Mech. Ageing Dev. 124: 711-720.

Aranda-Anzaldo, A. and Dent, M. A. R. (2007), “Reassesing the role of p53 incancer and ageing from an evolutionary perspective,” Mech. Ageing Dev. 128: 293-302.


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