New Scientist Short Sharp Science Blog: Synthetic life: watch this space: "Chalk up another first for Craig Venter: a completely synthetic bacterial genome. Unveiled online by Science today, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, have stitched together the entire genome of the human parasite Mycoplasma genitalium from hundreds of fragments of artificial DNA, produced to order by gene-synthesis firms."
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