The News:
Scientists put together a bacterium's gene blocks
By The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/25/2008 12:58:37 AM MST
WASHINGTON — It's another step in the quest to create artificial organisms: Scientists have synthesized the complete DNA of a type of bacterium. The experiment, published online Thursday by the journal Science, isn't a living germ, just a genetic structure. But scientists from Maryland's J. Craig Venter Institute called it the largest man-made stretch of DNA to date, and therefore a logical step in the fledgling field of "synthetic biology" that aims to build new organisms.
The Research:
Read the research behind this story in the journal Science.
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