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Nature 448, 32-33 (5 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448032a; Published online 1 July 2007

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Synthetic biology: Designs for life

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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.

  1. Philip Ball is a consultant editor for Nature.
    Email: p.ball@nature.com

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