And early stage startup Neochromosome, which includes Boeke, intends to raise money to
design synthetic chromosomes for medicine that could be used in an off - the - shelf universal cell line in cell therapies and transplants with minimal risk of rejection from the immune system.
Not exact matches
Other groups have previously synthesized
chromosomes from bacteria, but this is the first step in
designing synthetic eukaryotes.
We report the
design, synthesis, and assembly of the 1.08 — mega — base pair Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI - syn 1.0 genome starting from digitized genome sequence information and its transplantation into a M. capricolum recipient cell to create new M. mycoides cells that are controlled only by the
synthetic chromosome.