His team is also attempting to produce new food oils and make synthetic parts of every known influenza virus.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

He says his team changed existing life into new life because the synthetic cell can control and reproduce a living cell.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

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

They hope that future synthetic cells can make useful bacteria for products like bio-fuels or vaccines, and to clean up polluted water.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

University of Virginia professor Jim Galloway calls synthetic nitrogen fertilizer a "wonderful invention" because it increased food production.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

Today we tell about the development of what scientists are calling a synthetic cell - a cell produced by people instead of by nature.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

In late March, the synthetic genome started to produce a new form of cells.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

He and his research team have developed a synthetic,or manmade, cell he calls "Synthia."

VOA: special.2010.07.20

It says the synthetic cells might take control of living things in nature.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

"Let me just explain in very simple terms what synthetic C.D.O.s are.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Senator Claire McCaskill described synthetic C.D.O.s during a Senate subcommittee hearing.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

The cell is made from a synthetic genome.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Josh Birnbaum was involved in synthetic C.D.O.s.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

"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

But the City of Indianapolis came to the rescue. It bought the theater building in the 1980s and leased the Roof Ballroom to a developer, who not only fixed it up but installed what it called a scene machine to add more moody sky effects like synthetic snowfall.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25