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Is this the first Synthetic Genome?

Artificial genetic sequence has all the information to build and run a simple bacterium

Synthetic life researchers at the J.Craig Venter Institute in the USA have created a genetic sequence with all the information to build and run a simple bacterium. The 1,000 Genome Project aims to provide a more detailed foundation for medical genetic studies. The biodiversity that was lost millions of years ago in the Permian Mass Extinction. Plus, new European Community proposals on carbon emissions propose carbon capture and storage (CCS), and what is it in the brains of archer fish that gives them such fast reflexes and good aim?

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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