GENOMICS:

Synthetic Genome Brings New Life to Bacterium

Elizabeth Pennisi

For 15 years, J. Craig Venter has chased a dream: to build a genome from scratch and use it to make synthetic life. Now, he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland, and San Diego, California, say they have realized that dream. In this week's Science Express (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1190719), they describe the stepwise creation of a bacterial chromosome and the successful transfer of it into a bacterium, where it replaced the native DNA. Powered by the synthetic genome, that microbial cell began replicating and making a new set of proteins.

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TB bacterial Genome decoded by Indian Scientists

Today I got this news via friend of mine.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis the bacteria which causes TB is finally decoded by Indian scientists from CSIR. TB still being one of the deadliest diseases in India and in many third world countries. If I am not wrong this is first genome project completed by Indian scientists.

Anyway, this is a good news. Decoding this genome will definitely pave ways to new drugs to this deadly disease.

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