"We are here today to announce the first synthetic cell -- a cell made by starting with the digital code in the computer, building the chromosome from four bottles of chemicals, assembling that chromosome in yeast, transplanting it into a recipient bacterial cell and transforming that cell into a new bacterial species."

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Jeff Cohen,an ATF spokesperson. "One of our more noted success was a case a couple of years back involving a Hezbollah terror cell in North Carolina that was transporting cigarettes to the State of Michigan and making a great deal of money on the untaxed cigarettes and then was using the money to basically buy military equipment."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

But first,Mister Venter said, they had to de-activate a gene in the receiving cell that would have killed the synthetic genome.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

"For example in Rwanda, where cell phone-based technologies are being used to keep track of dispensation of drugs to patients with H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

To make that genome, the researchers replaced all the natural genetic material in a bacterial cell with a synthetic set of genes.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

We talked with Jamaica Corker, on her cell phone, at the Population Services International office in the D.R.C.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

"Back in the nineteen eighties when I was dating without computers, cell phones,text messaging, instant messaging, people had to be more organized.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

In other studies, bone marrow transplants cured severe sickle cell disease in almost two hundred children.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Last week,researchers in the United States reported curing nine adults with sickle cell disease.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Genes decide how and when each kind of cell will develop in differing organs.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Black people in Africa are the huge majority of those with sickle cell disease.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

He says it is the first cell whose parent was in a computer.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

The project hopes to export hydrogen fuel cell buses in the future.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

This third copy is a result of a mistake in cell division.

VOA: special.2009.09.09