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First Synthetic Cell manufactured
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Posted 2010-05-21, 01:43 PM in reply to
D3V
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"Yes, that could very well become..."
In the beginning when he's explaining how they created the cell, he says "assembling that chromosome in yeast, transplanting it into a recipient bacterial cell".
What I don't understand is, yeast is a micro-organism in itself, as is bacteria.. he said that they transformed the bacterial cell into a new bacterial species. Doesn't that mean they basically just induced a bacterial mutation?
K_A can you help me out here? My knowledge in science isn't up to par to fully understand this.
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