In the second, researchers announced in 2010 that they had created a synthetic
bacterial cell in the lab (SN: 6/19/10, p. 5).
The second, from 2010, said researchers had created a synthetic
bacterial cell in the lab.
Not exact matches
Working
in separate
labs, Americans David M. Karl at the University of Hawaii at Honolulu and Priscu found strong signs; both detected hundreds,
in some cases thousands, of
bacterial cells per milliliter of ice.
Set up experiments for whole week: Start
cell cultures, book microscopes, make buffers, and even find time over the
bacterial incubator for a spot of eyelash fluttering at the sexy postdoc
in the
lab next door.
The work was performed
in collaboration with Arjan Narbad's
lab at the Institute of Food Research
in Norwich, UK, who tested how engineering mutations
in the endolysins affected their ability to tear down the
bacterial cell wall.
She spoke with ASBMB Today about her
lab's work exploring molecular chaperones and mechanisms of bleach resistance
in bacterial and human
cells.
In May 2010, the J. Craig Venter Institute announced that its
lab had built the first synthetic, self - replicating
bacterial cell — that is, researchers inserted a synthetic genome, which did not exactly match the DNA sequence of any natural genome, into an existing working
cell; the
cell accepted the synthetic genome and reproduced.