For the first time, researchers have developed a new kind of software that makes it possible to genetically engineer, or ‘program’, a cell to perform any kind of function, via a simple programming language.Biologists have been producing custom-made bacteria or other single cells organisms that can do useful things for us since 1973. For example, most of the human insulin given to diabetics today has been produced in a genetically modified version of either baker’s yeast ...
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