A team of scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker’s yeast for the first time. The human genes in question ...

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates ...

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Yeast, like bacteria, causes infections. In fact, yeasts are responsible for over 100 million infections every year. These yeast infections can affect a range of different areas of the body and lead ...

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Scientists in Belgium—that celebrated bastion of ancient beer culture—are harnessing genetic breakthroughs and machine ...

“Our motivation is to understand the first principles of genome fundamentals by building synthetic genomes,” says co-author and synthetic biologist Patrick Yizhi Cai (@caiyizhi) of the University of ...