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Published online 20 August 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.847

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Scientists devise new way to modify organisms

Yeast cell surrogate may help scientists to engineer synthetic life.

Scientists have devised a way to modify an organism that was previously impossible to genetically engineer in the lab.

The method, developed by researchers at the J.

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