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0000-0002-6828-1000 The synthetic organisms hall of fame has a new member: Syn61, an E. coli with all its genome replaced by a synthetic version. Designing and building organisms from scratch could be the Holy Grail
0000-0003-0319-5416I wrote about engineered probiotics at the beginning of 2017, and the field continued throughout 2017 with more papers and startup news using engineered bacteria in the gut. For instance, one paper used engineered probiotics
0000-0003-0319-5416Modern medicine has found many ways to use a pill of chemicals to improve human health for people around the world. Drugs are taken for infections, cancer treatment, metabolic disorders, and every other ailment. Despite the impact
0000-0003-0319-5416 More than five trillion tiny pieces of plastic are floating on the surface of the world’s oceans, threatening marine life and posing health hazards to humans. Bacteria could help researchers detect and clean up
You say poTAYto; I say poTAHto. Degenerate pronunciations didn’t prevent Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers from tripping the light fantastic. The degeneracy of the genetic code, however, with 61 possible codons specifying 20 different amino
