Craig Venter's Typo Shows Poor Design is Still Design

Forbes.com is reporting that Craig Venter's "synthetic" bacterial chromosome contains a "genetic typo."

Molecular biology has ascribed a letter to each amino acid. Venter and his team imported DNA sequences into the chromosome--called watermarks--that coded for amino acids which 'spelled out' sentences in the chromosome. But they got one sentence wrong. As the article reports:

The synthetic DNA also included a quote from physicist Richard Feynman, "What I cannot build, I cannot...
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Published on March 17, 2011 16:23
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