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(Permalink) Posted: April 19 2014,02:38   

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http://arstechnica.com/science....tic-one

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built up an entire chromosome in yeast, eventually replacing the yeast's normal copy. ... the team made radical changes to the DNA normally found in yeast, deleting most of the sequences that might be considered non-essential. Despite the elimination of 15 percent of the chromosome, the synthetic version worked fine, and the resulting yeast were difficult to distinguish from their normal peers.


Sing along now....every base is sacred....every base is great...if a base is wasted...god gets quite irate

All together now: That can't be true that can't be true that can't be true... ENCODE!!!

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