Get ready for Franken-life. I hope it likes me.
(No offense intended, Sen. Franken.)
In what has been described as a step towards the creation of a synthetic cell, scientists have created a new "engineered" strain of bacteria.
A team successfully transferred the genome of one type of bacteria into a yeast cell, modified it, and then transplanted into another bacterium.
This paves the way to the creation of a synthetic organism - inserting a human-made genome into a bacterial cell.
"Bacteria have 'immune' systems that protect them from foreign DNA such as those from viruses," he explained ...
managed to disable this immune system,
A step closer to 'synthetic life'
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