U.S.A. invents the simple effective genetic synthetic technology

U.S.A. invents the simple effective genetic synthetic technology
Xinhua News Agency London 10 Cable of the 10th of moon (reporter is yellow) Research group this year 5 of one of U.S.A. The moon because the report creates firstly " L The artificial unicellular organism " R And wide and beneath mention. 10 days of October, this group is in Britain >Say, its member has invented the simplest and effectivest genetic synthetic technology so far on the magazine, and formated the mitochondrial genome of the experimental mouse with this technology.
American Craig 5 this year researchers of Venter research institute The moon is in U.S.A.>Write articles and say, they have formated the genome of a kind of bacterium, and use this genome to make a inside drawn the empty unicellular bacterium on the magazine " Come back to life " ,This is explained in order that for the first time by a lot of insiders " L Create the life artificially " .
But the basic synthetic unit that research use contain thousands of DNA of nucleotide ' DNA) Passage. Because basically formate the unit bigger, will bring some trouble while proving whether the synthetic genome of end is correct. Then, this research group has invented the new method of a synthetic genome, the basic synthetic unit used is to only include the bit of DNA of 60 pieces of nucleotide, put them in environment designed meticulously, can connect into the whole genome.
This group thinks, this is a method of the simplest artificial synthesis genome so far. In order to verify the validity of this method, researchers have formated the mitochondrial genome of the experimental mouse through it. Mitochondria is a kind of cell device that people and a lot of biological cells have, it is independent of nucleus, have one's own hereditary material and genome.
Main scientific research personnel Daniel and Jibson who has participated in above-mentioned research two times says, the reason why formate the genetic group of mitochondria of the experimental mouse, because mitochondria is unusual will cause a lot of diseases, if the gene studies in this respect make the break-through, probably research and develop the new treatment at this point. However, this research has only formated the genome, have not verified yet and deserved " L The artificial genome " R Actual function.
To the intersection of artificial synthesis and genome and therefore for create the life, hold differing views person a lot of expert, for example, think correlation technique may be used for making biochemical weapon or bringing some unpredictable risks, but Jibson says, " L The artificial life " R Technology can help the mankind. For example influenza virus make a variation quickly, at vaccine research and develop follow while being difficult, the intersection of gene and synthetic technology that have higher utilization efficiencies, the virus sample of the artificial synthesis that can be fast, thus accelerate the process that vaccine researches and develops.
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