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How a synthetic genome could be used to repurpose life forms

6 mins | Jun 2, 2019

In May 2019, scientists revealed they had built a fully working version of a gut bacterium. And as Anjana Ahuja, writing in The Financial Times, reports, this scientific breakthrough is a milestone in the quest to build life from scratch

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