Building a Virtual Microbe
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Building a Virtual Microbe, Gene by Gene by Gene
New York Times August 16, 2005
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An international team of biologists
is trying to reconstruct a living
thing inside a computer, down to
every last molecule, based on
Escherichia coli. A full-blown model
of E. coli would be able to swim,
eat food, fight off invading
viruses, make copies of its DNA, and
do many other tasks all at the same
time. Scientists could potentiallly...
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