SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

Breakthrough in creatingSynthetic Cell Creating a 'synthetic cell', asdescribed in a report publishedonline in Science, meant puttingtogether a series of previouslydeveloped steps. First, the teamestablished a method fortransplanting natural DNAfrom M. mycoides into M.capricolum . Then, working withMycoplasma genitalium, a specieswhose genome is about half thelength of that of M. mycoides,the group stitched together asynthetic donor genome andcloned it in a yeast cellDr.T.V.Rao MD 46