从人类基因组到人造生命：克雷格·文特尔领路生命科学

From human genome to man-made life: J. Craig Venter leads the life sciences

摘要:

2010年5月20日，美国Science杂志报道J. Craig Venter 的研究小组制造了第一个能够自我复制的人工合成生命，并立即引发了人们对这一研究潜在威胁的担忧和有关生物安全和生物伦理的讨论。但同时，这一成果也是人类在合成生物学领域的一次突破。我们相信在后基因组时代，合成生物学的发展必将广泛地应用于能源、环境、材料、医药等诸多领域，从而影响和改变人类未来的生活。

Abstract:

For the first time ever, the scientists of J. Craig Venter team have created actual self-replicating synthetic life. The research was just published in the Journal of Science on May 20, 2010. Although this news immediately brings the worry about the possible potential threat to biosecurity and biosafety as well as the ethical disputes, it yet indicates that mankind have made a new step forward in synthetic biology. In the time of post-genome era, we believe the advancement of synthetic biology that might affect or change the future life of human being will be widely used in energy, environment, materials, medication and many other fields.