{"id":345,"date":"2007-07-02T07:09:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T12:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2007-07-02T07:19:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T12:19:24","slug":"the-philosophers-stone-for-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"The Philosopher&#8217;s Stone for Genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Craig_Venter\">Craig Venter<\/A> and his team have come up with a genome transplantation method that transforms one type of bacteria into another, dictated by the transplanted chromosome.  In other words, one species turns into a different one.  Venter said further:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now we know we can boot up a chromosome system. It doesn&#8217;t matter if the DNA is chemically made in a cell or made in a test tube.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P>and then concluded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a major advance in the field of synthetic genomics. We now know we can create a synthetic organism. It&#8217;s not a question of &#8216;if&#8217;, or &#8216;how&#8217;, but &#8216;when&#8217;, and in this regard, think weeks and months, not years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P>To borrow Zaphod Beeblebrox&#8217;s phrase, Phreeow.  This is an enormous, astonishing advance in genetics, and is bound to affect everyone on the planet.<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/06\/29\/venter_changing_one_.html\">BoingBoing<\/A> links to the full text of the interview, along with some other news items about the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Venter and his team have come up with a genome transplantation method that transforms one type of bacteria into another, dictated by the transplanted chromosome. In other words, one species turns into a different one. Venter said further: Now we know we can boot up a chromosome system. It doesn&#8217;t matter if the DNA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}