This modifiedbacterialchromosome wasthenisolatedfromyeast and transplantedintoa related species of bacteria, Mycoplasmacapricolum, to create a new typeof M. mycoidescell.
The researchers placed the genome into a receiving cell of a bacterium called Mycoplasma capricolum.
VOA: special.2010.07.20
Genomics researcher Craig Venter just announced that he and a team at his eponymous institute have created a genetic code synthetically and inserted it into a bacterium called Mycoplasmacapricolum.