German is a synthetic language.

This is a synthetic language.

And it is the classic synthetic aroma chemical, OK?

Still others will have to export citrus, grains, processed foods, etc.

Others will have to export furniture or textiles.

In other words, a sort of synthetic organism had been created.

GV How do you feel the medium of textiles enhances artistic expression?

The thin textile lasts for two seasons and is then disposed of as bulk waste.

Special garments and fabrics in all societies have historical, cultural and emotional significance. Although I use many traditional techniques in my work, mostly in non traditional ways, the layering of fabrics of differing colours, patterns and textures is an important inspiration. KC Textiles and fiber are used by artists as any other medium.

Both artists use textiles, threads and fabrics in very creative ways.

I find textiles a pliable and eloquently responsive medium that communicates immediately.

KC Recently, textiles and fiber have been put in the forefront of some exhibitions by some artists.

With more artists exhibiting textile and fiber art based works there will be more recognition.

This company, Synthetic Genomics, I'm involved with, created the first full synthetic genome for a little bug, a very primitive creature called Mycoplasma genitalium.

It was a kind of returning to something I was innately responding to when I really fell in love with textiles.

There are similarities across our work from a purely generic frame, being all textile based.

And just recently we've made a breakthrough, where we now believe we're going to be able to create the first synthetic, self cleaning, dry adhesive. Many companies are interested in this.

Not only does it do that if you took the genome that synthetic genome and you plugged it into a different critter, like yeast, you now turn that yeast into Mycoplasma.

Now, you have the genome and you say to yourself, So, if I plug this synthetic genome if I pull the old one out and plug it in does it just boot up and live?

Others have pointed out that, although the team produced a synthetic genome, they put it into a cell from another bacterium, replacing that cell s DNA.

Even if Asia has succeeded by relentlessly exporting manufactures, today s poorest countries, especially in Africa, can realistically export only agriculture and textiles.

Roughly 50,000 North Korean workers are employed in 123 factories that produce about 450 million worth of goods (mainly textiles, shoes, and household goods).

Adjustment in the exchange rate is likely simply to shift to where America buys its textiles and apparel from Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, rather than China.

The country has progressed from the sugar based monoculture of 50 years ago to a diversified economy that includes tourism, finance, textiles, and, if current plans bear fruit, advanced technology.

Developed country tariffs on imports of agricultural products, textiles, and clothing the principal exports of most developing countries remained between 5 and 8 in 2008, just 2 3 percentage points lower than in 1998.