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Published online 24 January 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.522
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Genome stitched together by hand
Scientists construct building blocks for artificial life.
Scientists have succeeded in stitching together an entire bacterial genome, creating in the lab the full set of instructions needed to make a living thing. The stage is now set for the creation of the first artificial organism — and it could be achieved within the year.
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IF the logical 582, 970 numeral and zero level of the building blocks of DNA is valid, then the proven numeral equation levels of 970, 582, 582, and 970 which has smaller and superior numeral and zero levels, but has link to 582,970 will show deeper data link to the DNA of HUMAN SPECIES. THE far greater numeral equation data hidden from the building blocks of DNA is the bigger story that need exposure.
The biggest hindrance of scientific, and even technological, progress in comprehension and exploitation of Biology is the avoidance to accept-regard genes-genomes as organisms. And equally hindering is the lack of a term for genes-genome that explicitly and clearly defines them as organisms, as The Prime Cardinal Earth Life Organisms, distinguished from all cellular secondary stratum organisms. This avoidance, which is fraught with implications about the nature of life, is also the biggest hindrance of human existential and social progress. Chapter II, of "Life, Tomorrow's Comprehension" at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1&p=372 Natural Selection Is A Two Level Interdependent Affair 1) Evolution ensues from genome/genes modifications ("mutations"), inherently ever more of them as new functional options arise for the organism. 2) Modifications of genome's functional capabilities can be explained by the second-stratum organism's culture-life-experience feedbacks to its genome, its prime/base organism. The route-modification selection of a replicating gene, when it is at its alternative-splicing-steps junctions, is biased by the feedback gained by the genome, the parent organism, from the culture-life-experience of its progeny big organism. THIS IS HOW EVOLUTION COMES ABOUT. 3) The challenge now is to figure out the detailed seperate steps involved in introducing and impressing the big organism's experiences (culture) feedbacks on its founding parents' genome's genes, followed by the detailed seperate steps involved in biasing-directing the genes to prefer-select the biased-favored splicing. 4) I find it astonishing that only very few persons, non-professional as well as professional biologists-evolutionists, have the clear conception that selection for survival occurs on two interdependent levels - (a) during the life of the second-stratum progeny organism in its environment, and (b) during the life of its genome, which is also an organism. Most, if not all, persons think - incorrectly - that evolution is about randomly occurring genes-genome modifications ("mutations") followed with selection by survival of the progeny organism in its environment. Whereas actually evolution is the interdependent , interactive and interenhencing selection at both the two above levels. end chapter II Dov Henis
One practical application that this technology may be applied to is the engineering of genomes with biochemical pathways that synthesize useful compounds for the pharmaceutical industry. I am talking about compounds that are difficult, if not impossible to synthesize using organic synthesis techniques. This technology may also be useful in the studies of entire biochemical pathways, or even the entire genomes of some organisms, by manipulating several genes at once, not just one gene at a time.
One practical application that this technology may be applied to is the engineering of genomes with biochemical pathways that synthesize useful compounds for the pharmaceutical industry. I am talking about compounds that are difficult, if not impossible to synthesize using organic synthesis techniques. This technology may also be useful in the studies of entire biochemical pathways, or even the entire genomes of some organisms, by manipulating several genes at once, not just one gene at a time.