Indeed , synthetic life itself is within humanity 's grasp , as craig venter 's announcement on may 20th of a bacterium with a synthetic genome has shown .
This " turns out to be a much more complicated problem than we thought but we know how to solve it " , dr venter says .
这是“一个比我们所设想的复杂得多的问题但我们知道如何去解决,”凡特博士说。
Dr venter came to public prominence through his attempt to sequence the human genome in a race with the human genome project , a publicly funded consortium .
凡特此前因试图给人类基因组排序与受到公共资助的“人类基因组计划”一争高低而受到公众瞩目。
Dr venter 's microbe and dr benner 's artificial dna are particularly eye-catching projects within the fast-growing and wide-ranging scientific enterprise that goes by the name of synthetic biology .