Computer model of a bacterium - 07/24/12 11:17 AM
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"Researchers at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute (the group who made the first "synthetic" bacterium) have produced a computational model that tracks the activities of every single gene in the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium during its cell cycle (the researchers chose to model this bacterium because it has the smallest number of genes of any known organism). Here's the abstract from their paper, published in the journal Cell:"
It's only a relatively small step from here to creating cells that can synthesize and excrete practically any organic chemical man could possibly want. With some more computing power we can understand the inner workings of almost any living thing, given enough time.
"Researchers at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute (the group who made the first "synthetic" bacterium) have produced a computational model that tracks the activities of every single gene in the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium during its cell cycle (the researchers chose to model this bacterium because it has the smallest number of genes of any known organism). Here's the abstract from their paper, published in the journal Cell:"
It's only a relatively small step from here to creating cells that can synthesize and excrete practically any organic chemical man could possibly want. With some more computing power we can understand the inner workings of almost any living thing, given enough time.