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We decided early on that we had to take a synthetic route, even though nobody had been there before, to see if we could synthesize a bacterial chromosome so we could actually vary the gene content to understand the essential genes for life.

In 2002, we started a new institute, the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives, where we set out two goals: One, to understand the impact of our technology on the environment, and how to understand the environment better, and two, to start down this process of making synthetic life to understand basic life.

And we knew, once that worked, that we actually had a chance if we could make the synthetic chromosomes to do the same with those.

It turned out the cell that we were trying to transplant into had a nuclease, an enzyme that chews up DNA on its surface, and was happy to eat the synthetic DNA that we gave it and never got transplantations.

So the team developed new debugging software, where we could test each synthetic fragment to see if it would grow in a background of wild type DNA.

We felt one of the tenets of this field was to make absolutely certain we could distinguish synthetic DNA from natural DNA.

So, we thought the worst problem would be a single molecule contamination of the native chromosome, leading us to believe that we actually had created a synthetic cell, when it would have been just a contaminant.

So early on, we developed the notion of putting in watermarks in the DNA to absolutely make clear that the DNA was synthetic.

We have, at the Institute, ongoing funding now from NIH in a program with Novartis to try and use these new synthetic DNA tools to perhaps make the flu vaccine that you might get next year.

Let's start this new revolution at the tail end of the old one, with synthetic biology being the way to transform both our environment and our future.

Here's a synthetic diagram.

We smirk, because we believe that synthetic happiness is not of the same quality as what we might call "natural happiness."

Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic happiness is what we make when we don't get what we wanted.

And in our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness is of an inferior kind.

I want to suggest to you that synthetic happiness is every bit as real and enduring as the kind of happiness you stumble upon when you get exactly what you were aiming for.

But freedom to choose, to change and make up your mind, is the enemy of synthetic happiness, and I'm going to show you why.

But before I do that, I need to talk to you about synthetic materials like plastics, which require huge amounts of energy to create and, because of their disposal issues, are slowly poisoning our planet.

Van Peebles, a decent actor elsewhere, is a scream as he pretends to be a robot covered in synthetic flesh.

He is Polish, I am Dutch, yet we share a synthetic mind: the world is not void of the metaphysical amidst total coincidence.

as a matter of fact i most probably could not have imagined how meaningless a film, how synthetic the dialogs could be until an hour ago, but then again i saw this video.

The only form of food available is synthetic and distributed by the Soylent company.

This film was comical yet serious, at a time when synthetic fibres were rather new.

The scene where The Boys have to eat their own synthetic meal ("Looks good, smells good, and it probably tastes good.

Instead you are given over an hour of Haley Duff doing her best to act, in a cheap synthetic wig and a wardrobe bested by Sears.

He carries on to inform Grant that there are about 4000 Vampires worldwide & they revealed themselves to 'us' to try & live in harmony together, he also says that Vampires are genetic mutations & feed on a synthetic substitute for blood.

The best I got out of it was that it involved the old Elizabeth Bathory story, a pair of utterly ridiculous twin vampires, a doctor who has developed synthetic blood, and the search for virgins.

While this film may seem academically sound and well-researched, it does not once mention what I thought was rather widely regarded as the most practicable alternative to petroleum fuel, the conversion of coal into synthetic fuels using the Fischer-Tropsch process.

Brando excels with his portrayal of a greedy oil-rich company executive who is bent on keeping a synthetic oil production substitute a secret.

20 years later at the "U.S. Secret Operations Center," a group of doctors experimenting with synthetic, metallic skin are given the frozen cadaver as a test subject, resulting in a red-eyed creature that looks like a cross between PREDATOR, Sonic the Hedgehog and the ALIEN monster.

There used to be a formula created during the Third Reichregime that creates synthetic oil and cos that's quite nasty for those who gain their money with oil, everyone must be eliminated who comes in touch with the formula...that's it...and the big problem is that after 10 minutes you know who did it (you probably already know it yourself, not?) but before all this you have to watch thousands useless plots... Bad cinema!

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