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...
Published on March 17, 2011 16:23