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As he shuttled between his ship and his lab, Venter was overseeing another, equally grand and potentially revolutionary science project: creating life in the lab. Among the organisms he and his team sequenced in the years leading up to the human-genome work was Mycoplasma genitalium, an unlovely bacterium whose...
So Venter decided to start small, with one or two genes, and work his way up by splicing together longer and longer pieces of DNA. That very act of sticking them together proved to be a challenge, since the strands often fall apart. The answer was to design a section...
Such painstaking cut, study and paste eventually did the job. Not only did Venter's team members succeed in building their own mycoplasma at their own lab benches, they also took the opportunity to rewrite its genetic score. First, they introduced a mutation that would prevent it from causing disease...
Collins, Venter's once and perhaps future rival, whose group at the NIH is also working on creating synthetic genes, echoes that doubt. "Suppose I have a pile of dirt in my backyard and I want to move it," he says. "I could spend months building the components, but I...
The last time pop music was dealt this card, it went by the name Kurt Cobain, another lower-middle-class kid for whom being messed up was a source of creativity and, eventually, the killer of it too. Cobain told his few high school friends that he had "suicide genes...