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A team of U.S. scientists is reporting that it has constructed the genome of a living organism for the first time. Assembling bits of lab-made DNA, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Maryland say they have built the genetic structure of a bacterium from scratch in the lab.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...ory/Front/home


http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/pro...press-release/


http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1151721