Thread: Species change

Found this article to be quite interesting:

http://www.forbes.com/technology/200...628venter.html

I was quite amazed they were able to make the host cell take up the donor's information since they have different genomes although they did use microbes which were related.

Another interesting part in the article was that Venter's institute are trying to create an artificial chromosome.

Login needed. Cant you copy paste the story or sth?
Edit:
k, the link works now. Bah, I expected more than a bacteria changing into another, since they always behave like that (they include foreign genes into theirs).