Researchers have chopped, spliced and manipulated DNA to craft the first extensively modified “designer chromosome,” a genetic structure carefully engineered to spur scientific discovery.
The work is being hailed as a bioengineering feat and an important step toward producing a complex organism -- in this case brewer’s yeast -- with a custom-made synthetic genome, or genetic blueprint. The research paves the way for producing new medicines and even biofuels from life forms with artificial chromosomes.
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