Stories Related to Matter: Scientists Created Bacteria With A Synthetic Genome. Is This Artificial Life?

CARL ZIMMER, NY Times: Science
Wed, 05/15/2019 - 10:32am

In a milestone for synthetic biology, colonies of E. coli thrive with DNA constructed from scratch by humans, not nature.

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