Craig Venter's company appears to have succeeded in creating a synthetic genome and getting it into an emptied-out (prokaryotic bacterial) cell, essentially changing the cell into a new species. This is going to be huge. Of course, we still don't actually understand what everything in that custom genome does, exactly - much of it is copied from another bacterium species. Still, it's an amazing achievement that one can design (on a computer) a DNA sequence, stitch it together via various methods, and get a cell to "run" that software.
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That is amazing!!!!
Biology is a truly astounding subject. I expect as a condensed matter physicist you would probably find it exciting - particularly since they both deal with the collective effects of many more elementary constituents acting together to create fundamental new types of phenomena.
The article should have been titled as Synthia & Apollo and their Synthetic Life.
Synthetic/Synthia/Cynthia
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Synthia
Cynthia or "Synthia" was originally an epithet of the Greek goddess of the moon, Artemis, who was sometimes called "Cynthia" because, according to legend, the goddess was born on Mount Cynthus. Known also as a master of animals. Parallel Greek goddess to Roman goddess Diana. Daughter of Leto and twin sister of Apollo.
Synthia & Apollyon are one in the same... The hermaphrodite beast of the book of Revelations as seen as Apollyon and the 'scarlet whore' named as Hel...
All you have to do is study the Apollo/Athena, whom is Synthia/Artemis, angle in every story/issue/matter, and you will find the source of the evil. Because the beast named as Apollo/Athena is at the core of EVERY evil ever seen down through ALL the eons and ages... That evil can be seen when the connected names are completed... They touch every evil ever known...
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