Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Chemical synthesis of bacteriophage g4.



This paper illustrates how an entire bacteriophage genome can be synthesized and sequenced with good efficiency for bacteria infection. This is exciting for many reasons one being the ability to create an organism with an entirely synthetic genome by whole genome assembly. This study has implications for the medical treatment and/or prevention of human disease and further illuminates the possibilities for synthetic biology applications.

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