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Editorial
. 2016 Apr 2;7(2):53-6.
doi: 10.1080/21655979.2016.1175847.

JCVI-syn3.0 - A synthetic genome stripped bare!

Roy D Sleator  1
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Editorial

JCVI-syn3.0 - A synthetic genome stripped bare!

Roy D Sleator. Bioengineered. .
No abstract available

Keywords: JCVI-syn1.0; minimal genome; mycoplasma; synthetic biology.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Electron micrographs of clusters of JCVI-syn3.0 cells magnified ∼15,000 times. Courtesy of Tom Deerinck and Mark Ellisman of the National Center for Imaging and Microscopy Research at the University of California at San Diego.
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Comment on

  • Creation of a bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome.
    Gibson DG, Glass JI, Lartigue C, Noskov VN, Chuang RY, Algire MA, Benders GA, Montague MG, Ma L, Moodie MM, Merryman C, Vashee S, Krishnakumar R, Assad-Garcia N, Andrews-Pfannkoch C, Denisova EA, Young L, Qi ZQ, Segall-Shapiro TH, Calvey CH, Parmar PP, Hutchison CA 3rd, Smith HO, Venter JC. Gibson DG, et al. Science. 2010 Jul 2;329(5987):52-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1190719. Epub 2010 May 20. Science. 2010. PMID: 20488990

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