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Old 21-05-2010, 06:42 PM
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Nothing too suprising in this achievement, scientists have been inserting great lumps of DNA into bacteria cells for a long time, hell we even did it to make ampicillian resistant bacteria (super bugs) when I was at uni and it is not too difficult to do. No one has ever managed to replace an entire genome and have it replicate though, not to my knowledge anyway. Still a few more steps for the big one though.

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