Five New Artificial Yeast Chromosomes Set Stage for First Synthetic Eukaryotic Genome (VIDEO)
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Jef Boeke, part of the Synthetic Yeast GENOME Project (Sc2.0), discusses efforts to construct five synthetic yeast chromosomes - representing one-third of yeast's entire genome, in total. The results are major progress on the road to building the first fully synthetic complex organism, which the Sc2.0 consortium hopes to do in the future (swapping all 16 yeast chromosomes for engineered ones). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 10 March 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.M. Richardson at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, and colleagues was titled, "Design of a synthetic yeast genome."
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NYU Langone Medical Center
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