A public crowd-funding campaign has been launched by a starter Biotech company Genome Compiler, to create bioengineered glow-in-the-dark plants that will be given away to donors. This will be the first organism created by synthetic biology techniques to ever be released into the wild and most astonishingly, it will bypass any regulatory approval procedures in the process.
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What do all of these things have in common? How about the obscenely rich profiting off of the masses with their experiments in engineering humanity?
“Synthetic biology either builds new life using standardized genetic building blocks, or makes radical changes to existing life forms.” Christopher Barnatt
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In a paper published today in the journal Science, the J. Craig Venter Institute and Synthetic Genomics Inc announced the laboratory creation of the world’s first self-reproducing organism whose entire genome was built from scratch by a machine.