Synthetic Genome: Signed, Sealed, Decoded

You were expecting poetry, perhaps? The secret messages hidden in J. Craig Venter’s **synthetic bacterial genome** have now been revealed. They are Dr. Venter’s name, and that of his research institute and co-workers. Dr. Venter announced last week in the journal Science that his team had become the first **to synthesize the complete DNA of a bacterium**. He revealed that the genome had five “watermarks,” **sequences of genetic code** that would spell words using the letters for the amino acids that would be produced by the DNA. Whole article "nytimes":[ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/science/29genome.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin]

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