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http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/craig_venter_is_on_the_verge_of_creating_synthetic_life.html

is this guy for real?

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probly.

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Originally posted by murrow
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/craig_venter_is_on_the_verge_of_creating_synthetic_life.html

is this guy for real?
No. It's an elaborate April Fool's Day hoax for people without a calender.

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Originally posted by murrow
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/craig_venter_is_on_the_verge_of_creating_synthetic_life.html

is this guy for real?
It's not fully synthetic.

Once a version of the minimal 381-gene chromosome has been synthesized, it is intended to be transplanted into the nucleoid of a M. genitalium cell to create M. laboratorium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium