Craig Venter, who mapped the genome back in 1995, talked about his latest project: ushering in the "Jurassic Park" era of combinatorial genomics, where scientists will create life by typing out DNA. He predicts his team will be able to produce a single-cell eurkaryote--and eventually gasoline--in the lab from cellular building blocks within ten years.

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Today, nearly 1, 500 students are educated in the school, which boasts an eight-building campus with 16 classrooms, a science lab and library.

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The big bane of so-called advanced biofuels is that while they can be produced readily in the lab, building factories of meaningful size is extraordinarily difficult.

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The missions themselves are fun, and a mix of broad base-building exercises and more personal encounters with say, Kerrigan storming through a genetic research lab by herself.

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When Jerrold Zacharias was developing the first atomic clock, working in Building 20, he removed two floors in his lab to make room for a three-story metal cylinder.

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