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Researchers start up cell with synthetic genome

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A fully synthesized genome transforms one species of bacterium into another.

Scientists have built a bacterial genome from scratch and used it to 'reboot' a cell from a different species of bacterium.

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  1. Gibson, D.A. et al., Science advance online publication doi:10.1126/science.1190719 (2010)

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  1. Alla Katsnelson
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See also 'Sizing up the 'synthetic cell''

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Katsnelson, A. Researchers start up cell with synthetic genome. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.253

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