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Bio-IT World August 15, 2005 Kevin Davies	Pimp My Genome As costs plummet, the ability to rapidly synthesize and customize longer, more intricate fragments of genomic DNA opens up a plethora of applications in basic and applied biology. A commercial synthetic biology industry is beginning to take shape.
Wired July 21, 2008 Thomas Goetz	How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life The project will turn information from 100,000 subjects into a huge database that can reveal the connections between our genes and our physical selves. Here's how.
BusinessWeek October 23, 2008 John Carey	Reading the Entire Genetic Code Pioneers such as 23andMe and Navigenics use snips of genes to make medical predictions. Now new tools from more start-ups are on the horizon.
Wired January 2005 Oliver Morton	Life, Reinvented A group of MIT engineers wanted to model the biological world. But, damn, some of nature's designs were complicated! So they started rebuilding from the ground up - and gave birth to synthetic biology.
Bio-IT World July 2005 Kevin Davies	Synthetic Biologists Assemble Codon Devices Company Emerging leaders in the new discipline of synthetic biology have raised $13 million in first-round venture funding for the field's first commercial entity - a startup company called Codon Devices.
Bio-IT World March 2006 Kevin Davies	Church Inquiry Gets Personal Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church with his plan for the Personal Genome Project is a likely contender for the X Prize that will be awarded to the group or individual that most helps cross the $1,00 genome threshold.
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Chemistry World May 20, 2010 Hayley Birch	The first synthetic cell A chemically synthesised chromosome has for the first time been transplanted into a cell to produce a synthetic bacterium.
Chemistry World March 27, 2014 James Urquhart	Synthetic yeast chromosome is fully functional The first complete and functional synthetic yeast chromosome has been created by a team of scientists based in the US.
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Chemistry World July 2008 Mark Peplow	Editorial: There's plenty of room in the middle Today, chemists and biologists are looking at the space between their own disciplines and asking big questions about where science at the interface might lead them.
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IEEE Spectrum February 2010 Mark Anderson	Path to the Personal Genome The next four years will be brought to you by the letters A, C, G, and T
Fast Company February 1, 2008 Elizabeth Svoboda	Fueling The Future The oil well of tomorrow may be in a California lab full of genetically modified, diesel-spewing bacteria.
Scientific American June 2006	How to Kill Synthetic Biology Assembling a complete genetic circuit promises to advance biotechnology in much the same way that the invention of integrated circuits transfigured electronics.
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Scientific American June 2009 Melinda Wenner	Genetic Copy Variations and Disease A new sense for how variable numbers of genes cause disease.
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BusinessWeek June 2, 2011 Daniel Grushkin	Book Review: Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life by Marcus Wohlsen A grass-roots movement of biohackers is ready to dream up billion-dollar ideas -- in kitchens, garages, and workshops.
Salon.com June 26, 2000 Ralph Brave	The great gene race A tiny private company and the giant public genome project jointly crossed the finish line. But the upstart really won.
Bio-IT World October 2005 Dennis A. Gilbert	The DNA Sequencing Race: From Sprint to Marathon To create faster, cheaper, and better solutions for DNA analysis, we must remain committed to improving both current and new sequencing technologies. Research that just a short while ago might have been considered too complex, too expensive, or just inconceivable is now well within our grasp.
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PC Magazine August 8, 2008 Carol L. Gonsher	Storing Data on Living Computers DNA stores an awful lot of information, so why not computer data?
Chemistry World July 6, 2012	Protein power Tom Muir, professor of chemistry and molecular biology, Princeton University, US, is an expert in protein engineering and its application to studying cellular signalling networks.
Salon.com January 9, 2001 Ralph Brave	Decoding the genome Six new books tackle human biology's Holy Grail, but each fights its own crusade...
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BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 John Carey	Craig Venter: DNA's Mapmaker Who could ever have imagined that a surfer working as a night clerk at Sears, Roebuck & Co. would eventually become the driving force behind the race to read the genetic code of humanity?
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Chemistry World September 4, 2013 Mark Peplow	Synthetic biology is bursting with life The field encompasses a vast array of research themes, from creating artificial life to engineering microbes to produce medicines or fuels. Through it all, though, runs a rich seam of chemistry.
Wired April 2006 Steve Olson	Bringing Back the Brontosaurus Digging for fossils is for dinosaurs. Today's animal trackers are using genomics to reconstruct, and one day resurrect, the original hot-blooded beast.
BusinessWeek May 9, 2005 John Carey	Dr. Francis S. Collins: On The Trail Of Disease Genes Collins is leading the search for DNA variations that can result in illnesses.
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Geotimes November 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Neanderthal DNA Unraveled Probing fossil DNA for the genetic information of a long-extinct species might sound like a feat fit for Hollywood. For two research teams, however, the stunt is starting to become reality, as they have begun to unravel the genetic code of Neanderthals.
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Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Data stored in live cells Every type of storage media -- from stone to paper to magnetic disks -- is subject to destruction. Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are tapping forces of nature to store information more permanently.
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