Now he has a bacterial genome in his sights.

现在，他又瞄准了细菌基因组。

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This is the first time a native bacterial genome has been grown successfully in yeast.

这是第一次原生细菌的基因组在酵母中也成功地复制。

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Dr Venter reckons he will be able to synthesise a working bacterial genome from scratch within two years.

Venter博士估计他可以从零做起，在两年内合成一个可以工作的细菌基因组。

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To make that genome, the researchers replaced all the natural genetic material in a bacterial cell with a synthetic set of genes.

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Now fast-forward to May of last year, when Venter and his team reported in Science (The Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome in Science), the successful generation of a cell directed entirely by a synthetic genome, programmed from a computer and synthesized piece by piece.

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And their task dwarfs the genome project: with perhaps 1, 000 species under investigation, the number of bacterial genes could amount to 200, 000, compared with 20, 000 human ones.

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