Topic: Craig Venter
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The Monitor's View: A big step toward 'designer babies' – and big questions
Researchers have achieved the first mapping of a fetus's DNA. The breakthrough opens the potential to choose a child's characteristics. Such power, however, should also force questions about 'playing God.'
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The Monitor's View: Keep a close eye on synthetic biology
A presidential commission lays out a reasonable path forward in exploring the potential of synthetic biology, a possible boon to energy, environmental cleanup, and medicine. But its report should also spark an ongoing debate.
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What we see when we see race
Even in the era of a black president, Americans are never far from conversation, argument, or conflict over race. But while racism is real, race itself is a mirage.
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Artificial life could offer clues about how life began
Last Thursday, the J. Craig Venter genomics research institute announced that it has created the first organism with a manmade genome, offering a potential breakthrough in our understanding how complex life first emerged.
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Into It: Tony Robbins
The leadership and performance guru reveals what he's reading, watching, and listening to.
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A new step toward synthetic life
A genome firm says it changed one bacterium species into another by transferring DNA 'software.'
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