This engineered genome will help experts tailor organisms to fit the needs of their ever-changing environments.

After more than a decade of work, researchers have reached a major milestone in their efforts to re-engineer life in the lab, ...

Advances in understanding the complexity of eukaryotic transcriptomes have been ... have recently evolved to allow rapid, unbiased, genome-wide analyses of transcriptomes. First, DNA microarrays ...

Scientists have finally created synthetic life in a lab by constructing a synthetic yeast for the first time in history.

The nucleomorph has many features of a eukaryotic genome, such as telomere-like repeats, potential centromeric sequences and a few small introns. A very high gene density, overlapping genes and ...

This achievement represents the completion of the global Sc2.0 project to create the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeast) and a new-to ...

Scientists led by a Macquarie University team have completed construction of the final chromosome in the worlds’ first synthetic yeast genome following more than a decade of work, opening new ...

This achievement represents the completion of the global Sc2.0 project to create the world's first synthetic eukaryotic genome from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast) and a new-to-nature ...

The international team has already combined six and a half synthetic chromosomes in a functional cell. It is the first time scientists have written a eukaryotic genome from scratch. Yeasts are a ...

This study details the design and optimization of synXVI, a synthetic yeast chromosome, overcoming growth challenges through ...

Macquarie University researchers, alongside an international team, have achieved a significant milestone in synthetic biology by completing the final chromosome of the world's first synthetic yeast ...

Macquarie University researchers have worked with an international team of scientists to achieve a major milestone in synthetic biology by completing the creation of the final chromosome in the ...