J. Craig Venter describes biofuels, vaccines and foods from made-to-order microbes
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 23:30
in Biology & Nature
Just as authors often read numerous books before starting their own, scientists are using decades of knowledge from sequencing the genetic codes of thousands of living things to start writing new volumes in the library of life. J. Craig Venter, one of the most renowned of those scientists, recently described construction of the first synthetic cell and many new applications of this work.