I wonder if they will call it Franken Bacterium.

Scientists Create 1st Living Organism From Artificial DNA
HealthDay May 7, 2014 90 Comments SHARE

By Alan Mozes, HealthDay Reporter
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WEDNESDAY, May 7, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Move over, Frankenstein! Your 21st-century counterpart has just been announced.

In true sci-fi fashion, a team of researchers from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in La Jolla, Calif., has created a brand-new bacteria based on a genetic structure found nowhere on Earth.

According to lead researcher Floyd Romesberg, the feat involved artificially engineering a unique combination of DNA material -- a combination not found in any living creature -- and then successfully inserting it into a living cell that usually contains only natural combinations of DNA.

"Life on Earth in all its diversity is encoded by only two pairs of DNA bases, A-T and C-G," Romesberg explained in an institute news release. "And what we've made is an organism that stably contains those two plus a third, unnatural pair of bases."

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More:
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/art...-dna?src=usn_tw

Now what could possible go wrong ???

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I wonder if they will call it Franken Bacterium.

Scientists Create 1st Living Organism From Artificial DNA

According to lead researcher Floyd Romesberg, the feat involved artificially engineering a unique combination of DNA material -- a combination not found in any living creature -- and then successfully inserting it into a living cell that usually contains only natural combinations of DNA.

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Now what could possible go wrong ???

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What a misleading title. They did not claim to create life. They added material to something already alive.

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For anyone interested

According to the Fox news article
First life forms to pass on artificial DNA engineered by US scientists

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Romesberg found that when the modified bacteria divided they passed on the natural DNA as expected. But they also replicated the synthetic code and passed that on to the next generation. That generation of bugs did the same.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/ma...a-us-scientists

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Edit:
my error this is from The Guardian, not Fox.