Article
Synthetic biology: now that we're creators, what should we create?
Current biology : CB - 24 Aug 2010
Cohan Frederick M
Abstract excerpt
A 'synthetic' microbe has been created by introducing the artificially produced genome of one species into the cytoplasm of another. The technology allows the introduction of easily transferable adaptive units, as well as sets of genes that have likely never been transferred successfully.
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bioengineering
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genetic Engineering
- Genome, Bacterial
- Mycoplasma capricolum
- Mycoplasma mycoides
- Phenotype