[neverdem]

Thiamine is Vitamin B1. They should have written thymine.

[neverdem]

Team IDs weakness in anthrax bacteria

Ulysses Spacecraft Flies Over Sun's North Pole

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[SunkenCiv]

Mycoplasma genitalium

Imagine, spending your workday looking at Mycoplasma genitalium through a microscope. Buncha pervs.

[Born to Conserve]

No mommy or daddy? That’s so sad!

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Sometimes when I read a story like this one, I find myself thinking of the Tower of Babel. I always wondered how they were able to make Mr. Data fully functional.

[Froufrou]

Okay, showing my duh-ness, why would we want to synthetically infect something/someone?

[r9etb]

“This is an exciting advance for our team and the field. However, we continue to work toward the ultimate goal of inserting the synthetic chromosome into a cell and booting it up to create the first synthetic organism,” said Dan Gibson, lead author.

Not quite. At best, what they'd be doing is analogous to loading software into a pre-existing computer.

They won't really have created an organism until they can create the cell to go with it.