Top Scientific Discoveries of the Decade You Must Know

Guri9915501 Oct, 2024Science

At the J. Craig Venter Institute, researchers produced the first living being with a fully synthetic genome in 2010. This development might be the starting point towards creating synthetic life. Computer-designed genomes are put together in a lab and can work in a donor cell to reproduce completely functional living things. More than one million base pairs of DNA were used to build the Mycoplasma mycoides bacterium?s genome. Then, Mycoplasma capricolum, which had been stripped of its genome, received the transplanted genome. In the end, the machinery of the Mycoplasma capricolum translated the directives and created naturally existing Mycoplasma mycoides.