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The Real Promise of Synthetic Biology

Date

Authors

Krauss, Lawrence

Publisher

Scientific American Inc

Abstract

I have seen the future, and it is now. Those words came to mind again as I recently listened to Craig Venter, one of those leading the new areas of synthetic genomics and synthetic biology. Every time I hear a talk on this subject, it seems a new threshold in the artificial manipulation and, ultimately, creation of life has been passed.

Keywords

bacterial DNA, bacteriophage phi X 174, biotechnology

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/292116

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Scientific American

Type

Journal article

Access Statement

Free Access via publisher website

DOI

10.1038/scientificamerican0210-32

Restricted until

2099-12-31

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