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Published online 28 June 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070625-9

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Genome transplant makes species switch

One type of bacterium has been reprogrammed into another.

By transplanting their genomes, US scientists have converted one species into another.

John Glass and his co-workers at the J.

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