The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies ...

Synthetic genomes are genetic materials designed and developed by scientists to study biological systems of natural organisms. 1 “I would define a synthetic genome as a genome of an organism in which ...

This synthetic genome tech means that life-forms can be customized depending on what aspects need to be enhanced. As part of the Sc2.0 Project, for example, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was ...

Key innovation: Created synthetic bacterial cells, possibly paving the way for organisms specifically tailored to make fuels. Technology: Strains of algae engineered by Synthetic Genomics excrete ...

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a roundworm used extensively in biological research, opening a new pathway for synthetic biologists to build and test genetic changes in a ...

Using the tools of synthetic biology, scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute installed a completely artificial genome inside a host cell without DNA.

To create a specific synthetic chromosome within the synthetic genome, Goold started with several strains of S. cerevisiae, which had already had synthetic pieces of DNA inserted.