Sentences with phrase «first synthetic yeast»

In March 2014, Sc2.0 successfully assembled the first synthetic yeast chromosome (synthetic chromosome 3, or synIII) comprising 272,871 base pairs, the chemical units that make up the DNA code.

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.

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A few weeks later, John Dueber, a synthetic biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues announced yeast that carries out most of the first half of the pathway, going from glucose to another intermediate compound, S - reticuline.

The new round of papers consists of an overview and five papers describing the first assembly of synthetic yeast chromosomes synII, synV, synVI, synX, and synXII.

The Synthetic Yeast Genome Project, Sc2.0, is the world's first eukaryotic genome engineering project.