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It’s this process that holds great promise to revive extinct species or create NEW ones. Second is MAGE AND CAGE (multiplex automated genome engineering and conjugative assembly genome engineering ) discovered by genetic engineers from Yale, MIT, and Harvard. The precision of this control has been described as offering researchers the equivalent tool to editing individual letters of an encyclopedia-without making a spelling error. With little training, a novice could perform this genetic manipulation technique. And just last year, biologists engineered an artificial chromosome, building a functional, living yeast from scratch.īut the most astounding advances are two techniques known as EVOLUTION MACHINES.įirst is CRISPR-CAS9 technique.
Even the pace of our ability to read and write DNA increases tenfold every year.which means in ten short years, genetic engineering could be ten billion times faster.Īlready a lab has managed to create the first synthetically built cell (2010, Craig Venter). What once cost tens of thousands of dollars can be done for pennies now. Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will discover the truth about an ancient continent, about a new form of death buried under miles of ice.įrom millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date: stopping the coming extinction of mankind.Ĭonsidering the fact that the cost of lab equipment and materials has been plummeting for years. To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past, to a time when Antarctica was green and all life on Earth balanced upon the blade of a knife. The land is entirely sterile-and the blight is spreading.
A remote military research station sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover everyone already dead-and not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria.
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