Scientists have finally managed to create the first synthetic yeast chromosomes, but keeping them together is a lot harder.
Scientists have come one step closer to creating a synthetic yeast. For more than 15 years, researchers have worked tirelessly to build a complex cell with an entire genome from the ground up. And now they’ve hit a major milestone by managing to combine artificial versions of some of the 16 chromosomes in a single yeast cell successfully. This feat is especially exciting because it reveals more information about the foundational processes within cells.
But then you have to combine all of that together in a way that doesn’t cause it to fall apart. While genetic modification has come a long way in recent years, past attempts to edit things have only seen scientists modifying the individual genes, not the entire chromosomes, so this is a much more complicated process.
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