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Synthetic genomics and the construction of a synthetic bacterial cell.
Perspectives in biology and medicine - 1 Jan 2012
Glass John I
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The first synthetic cellular organism was created in 2010 and based on a very small, very simple bacterium called Mycoplasma mycoides. The bacterium was called synthetic because its DNA genome was chemically synthesized rather than replicated from an existing template DNA, as occurs in all other known cellular life on Earth. The experiment was undertaken in order to develop a system that would allow creation of a...
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