Scientists synthesize first functional designer chromosome in yeast
Green Car Congress
MARCH 28, 2014
The massive effort was aided by some 60 undergraduate students enrolled in the “Build a Genome” project, founded by Dr. Boeke at Johns Hopkins. To test the scrambling technique, researchers successfully converted a non-mating cell with synIII to a cell that could mate by eliminating the gene that prevented it from mating.
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