(The Gist of Science Reporter) World’s First Living Creature with Fully Synthetic DN

World’s First Living Creature with Fully Synthetic DNA

• For the first time, scientists at Cambridge University artificially recreated Escherichia coli which has entirely synthetic and radically altered DNA code.
• The purpose of using the method is to better define the minimum set of genes required for a free living cell.
• Before creating a synthetic version of E.coli DNA, scientists read & redesigned the DNA of E.coli and then created a microbe named Syn61 made of synthetic and highly modified DNA.
• The bacterium is slightly longer as compared to its natural counterpart and takes longer to grow and survive. The study was published in Nature.

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