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11 years ago

Students Build the First Eukaryotic Chromosome from Scratch

In March undergraduate students in Johns Hopkins University’s Build a Genome course announced they had made a yeast chromosome from scratch—and history, too. It is the first time anyone has synthesized the chromosome of a complex organism, a landmark achievement in the field of synthetic biology. It is also a triumph for the movement known as DIY biology.