A £10 million Wellcome Trust-funded project seeks to create artificial human genomes. Technology Networks explored the ...

A 15-year project trying to build a synthetic yeast genome has hit a major milestone – yeast cells with more than 50% synthetic DNA for the first time. The team created synthetic versions of ...

This achievement represents the completion of the global Sc2.0 project to create the world's first synthetic eukaryotic genome from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast) and a new-to-nature ...

Scientists have completed construction of the final chromosome in the worlds' first synthetic yeast genome following more than a decade of work, opening new possibilities for creating resilient ...

The Synthetic Yeast Genome Project 2.0 declares a major milestone: it has created a yeast strain comprising over 50% synthetic DNA.

This achievement is part of the Synthetic Yeast Genome Project version 2.0, which explores how custom-built genes could reshape our understanding of biology and lead to powerful new technologies.

In 2011, researchers built the first synthetic chromosome arm, synIXR, which launched the international project. In 2014, Sc2.0 reported the building of the first synthetic yeast chromosome ...

The Synthetic Yeast Project was a breakthrough. Unlike bacteria, yeast is a eukaryotic cell. Plants, animals, and humans all fall into this category. Our DNA is protected inside a nut-like bubble ...

The publications are the work of the Synthetic Yeast Genome project (Sc2.0), an international collective of scientists that have embarked on the ambitious bioengineering project.

The project hopes that these synthetic yeast cells may be able to work faster, yield greater results, and be more tolerant to environmental changes when used to make bread or in the production of ...

These chromosomes have been painstakingly built from scratch over the last decade using chemicals in the lab as part of the Synthetic Yeast Genome Project, also known as Sc2.0.

This achievement represents the completion of the global Sc2.0 project to create the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeast) and a new-to-nature ...