On Oct 6, 2007, Craig Venter announced in an interview with UK's "The Guardian" newspaper that the same team had synthesized a modified version of the single chromosome of "Mycoplasma genitalium" artificially. The chromosome was modified to eliminate all genes which tests in live bacteria had shown to be unnecessary. The next planned step in this "minimal genome project" is to transplant the synthesized minimal genome into a bacterial cell with its old DNA removed; the resulting bacterium will be called "Mycoplasma laboratorium". The next day the Canadian bioethics group, ETC Group issued a statement through their representative, Pat Mooney, saying Venter's "creation" was "a chassis on which you could build almost anything". The synthesized genome had not yet been transplanted into a working cell.