This Perspective takes the reader through the important steps in bacterial genome assembly and activation and concludes with an outlook on how customized genomes may be achieved. The DNA ...

However, the ability to write a genome from scratch would unlock greater creativity in designing a desired genome — your dream home — and producing new kinds of organisms that do things that nature ...

The paper, by C.A. Hutchison III at J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome." C. Bickel / Science (2016) ...

The "power plants" of living cells, the mitochondria, probably evolved through endosymbiosis: A bacterium migrated into a primordial cell and eventually developed into an organelle that provides the ...

Genomes can now be entrusted to store information about a variety of transient biological events inside of living cells, as they happen, like a flight recorder collecting data from an aircraft.

“The Sc2.0 global consortium to design and construct a synthetic genome based on the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome commenced in 2006, comprising 16 synthetic chromosomes and a new-to-nature ...

More information: Soumya Kannan et al, Evolution-guided protein design of IscB for persistent epigenome editing in vivo, Nature Biotechnology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41587-025-02655-3 Journal ...

In earlier phases of the project, researchers mapped out where enhancers and promoters are located in the human genome. The genome, Reilly said, is something like a blueprint for a house; discerning ...

Scientists have pieced together a new draft of the human genome that better captures humanity’s genetic diversity. The new “pangenome” incorporates the DNA of 47 individuals from every ...

Scientists Unveil a More Diverse Human Genome The “pangenome,” which collated genetic sequences from 47 people of diverse ethnic backgrounds, could greatly expand the reach of personalized ...