科学家在耗资4000万美元、历经15年研究后，创造了“首个合成物种”

这是一种在计算机上设计出的细菌，它“从人类制造的合成染色体而非自然获得的遗传指令中获取信息，而且它是活的。它是活的，并且能够自我复制。这意味着它可以无限生长并复制自身。”

“文特尔认为，这是生物革命的第一步婴儿步伐，在这场革命中，人们将能够定制设计并重新编程细菌——DNA是生命的软件”

这项工作被视为合成生物学的基础性里程碑，据称证明了生命可以从零开始被设计制造

Scientists have created “the first synthetic species” after 15 years of research costing $40 million dollars

It’s a bacteria designed on a computer that “gets its genetic instructions from a synthetic chromosome made by man, not nature, and it's alive. It's alive and self-replicating. It means it can indefinitely grow and make copies of itself.”

“Venter believes this is the first baby step in a biological revolution, one in which it will be possible to custom design and reprogram bacteria — DNA is the software of life”

This work is considered a foundational milestone in synthetic biology, allegedly proving life could be engineered from scratch @WallStreetApes http://t.cn/AXJIQIdw