Synbio News

May 20, 2010

Synthetic Genome Brings New Life to Bacterium

Science Magazine

For 15 years, J. Craig Venter has chased a dream: to build a genome from scratch and use it to make synthetic life. Now, he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland, and San Diego, California, say they have realized that dream.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5981/958