Sunday, December 8, 2019

Artificial Life and The Designer Microbe

Artificial life form given 'synthetic DNA'
May 2019, BBC News

It's a form of E. coli that's been "written from scratch". In other words, every gene it has was altered. And yet it's alive.
Also, it has a name - Syn61.
Welcome.

image source: flowvis.org

Note:
The article points out that "The approach is more cautious than that used by bio-entrepreneur, Craig Venter, whose microbial replicant based on the tiny organism Mycoplasma genitalium was presented to the world in 2010.

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