TY  - JOUR
T1  - SYnthetic cells
AU  - Mitka M
Y1  - 2010/07/14
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2010.879
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 148
EP  - 148
VL  - 304
IS  - 2
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.879
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.879
ER  -