Toward Synthetic Life: Scientists Create Ribosomes -- Cell Protein Machinery
Date: 10.3.2009
Harvard scientists have cleared a key hurdle in the creation of synthetic life, assembling a cell’s critical protein-making machinery in an advance with both practical, industrial applications and that advances the basic understanding of life’s workings.
George Church, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School and member of Harvard’s Origins of Life Initiative, reported the creation of billions of synthetic **ribosomes** that readily create a long, complex protein called firefly **luciferase**.
Source "sciencedaily.com":[ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309104434.htm]
