But first,Mister Venter said, they had to de-activate a gene in the receiving cell that would have killed the synthetic genome.

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He says his team changed existing life into new life because the synthetic cell can control and reproduce a living cell.

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It can be driven three hundred kilometers on the hydrogen cell and an additional fifty kilometers on its batteries.

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To make that genome, the researchers replaced all the natural genetic material in a bacterial cell with a synthetic set of genes.

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Still others question whether the cell and those to follow can really help improve health and make biofuels.

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"Back in the nineteen eighties when I was dating without computers, cell phones,text messaging, instant messaging, people had to be more organized.

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We talked with Jamaica Corker, on her cell phone, at the Population Services International office in the D.R.C.

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Reaching for a cell phone when it's going off, you're nine times more likely to get into an accident than normally driving."

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At the announcement of the cell's creation, Mister Venter described the steps his team followed to develop Synthia.

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People who think they could do the job could reply by text message or on their cell phones.

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"For example in Rwanda, where cell phone-based technologies are being used to keep track of dispensation of drugs to patients with H.I.V.

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Sickle cell disease, also called sickle cell anemia, is a genetic condition that deforms red blood cells.

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"Now,with the advent of cellular technology, most of the people we do reach, such as the Maasai pastoralists, they all have cell phones.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

Inside the yeast cell, the yeast machinery recognized that the two DNA pieces had the same order.

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