Mary Shelley’s 1818 book, Frankenstein, started a popular trend with authors and movie screen writers of science fiction and horror. For over a century now, movies have been produced replicating the Frankenstein novel and the mysteries revolving around creating life from scratch. Numerous films show humans creating creatures or monsters, with good intentions, only for something to go wrong and the creation creates havoc on everyone involved. Viewers will find every variation of creation from cloning
What is synthetic biology? (Caruso, 2008)In January 2008, scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute announced that they had created the first complete synthetic genome, setting the stage for the complete “reprogramming” of an organism with synthetic DNA. Technologies that can read, map, and manipulate the genetic code of living organisms have escalated in power and capabilities over the past 30 years, yielding an unprecedented amount of data and a more sophisticated understanding of how genetic
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