RT Journal
A1 Mitka M
T1 SYnthetic cells
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2010
FD July 14
VO 304
IS 2
SP 148
OP 148
DO 10.1001/jama.2010.879
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.879
AB 
At the May 25 hearing, members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce heard from J. Craig Venter, PhD, whose research team created the self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell (Gibson DG et al. Science. doi: 10.1126/science.1190719 [published online ahead of print May 20, 2010]). That feat involved synthesizing the 1.1 million base-pair genome of Mycoplasma mycoides and inserting it into a Mycoplasma capricolum cell that had been stripped of its own genome; the synthesized M mycoides genome provided the instructions for the cell to function and replicate.