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Nature 448, 32-33 (5 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448032a; Published online 1 July 2007
Synthetic biology: Designs for life
Philip Ball1
Abstract
The genome of one bacterium has been successfully replaced with that of a different bacterium, transforming one species into another. This development is a harbinger of whole-genome engineering for practical ends.
If your computer doesn't do the things you want, give it a new operating system. As they describe in Science1, Carole Lartigue and colleagues at the J.
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