TechBlog: How to build long DNA
My most recent Technology Feature, on the technology of genome synthesis, describes advances in the field of large-scale genome hacking. Researchers are rewriting the genomes of organisms from E. coli to yeast, with millions of bases written from scratch. Now, through projects like Genome Project-write, they are turning their attention to even more complex organisms, with concomitantly larger genomes. Read more
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