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Biological Teleportation: It Is Possible to Teleport Living Beings!
by Anna LeMind
Learning Mind
Renowned geneticist Craig Venter, one of the pioneers of synthetic biology, claims that the technologies needed to teleport living beings already exist. However, till now he is talking only about viruses and bacteria. But maybe someday it can be true for humans too.
In 1995 a group of scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute, JCVI, launched a project “minimal genome“, whose goal was to leave in the genetic code only the essential information for the existence of a living organism. The research was based on the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium, which at that time had the smallest genome of all known (482 genes). In 1999, Venter reduced the number of genes to 382, creating a “semi-synthetic” Mycoplasma laboratorium.
In 2003, together with colleagues from JCVI he announced to have managed to transform one type of bacteria (M. capricolum) to another (M. mycoides) using genome transplant, and in 2008 an organism with a fully synthetic genome was created after a second attempt.
Last year, Craig Venter published a new book Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life, in which not only he describes the history of synthetic biology but also a completely new concept of “biological teleportation”.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2014/03/biological-teleportation-it-is-possible_3.html
