Sentences with phrase «first synthetic organism»
Molecular biologist Venter recently used this approach to create what he calls the first synthetic organism.
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It is the first synthetic chromosome ever assembled from a eukaryotic organism, the type in which cells store DNA in nuclei.
The team that built the first synthetic yeast chromosome has added five more chromosomes to their repertoire, totalling roughly a third of the organism's genome.
Environmental scientists and synthetic biologists have for the first time developed a set of key research areas to study the potential ecological impacts of synthetic biology, a field that could push beyond incremental changes to create organisms that transcend common evolutionary pathways.
It is the first time anyone has synthesized the chromosome of a complex organism, a landmark achievement in the field of synthetic biology.
Our transgenic plants are one of the first examples of detector plants and a fully synthetic signaling pathway in a higher eukaryotic organism.