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Scientists Just Achieved a Major Milestone in Creating Synthetic Life


After more than a decade of work, researchers have reached a major milestone in their efforts to re-engineer life in the lab, putting together the final chromosome in a synthetic yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) genome.

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