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'minimal' Cell Raises Stakes in Race to Harness Synthetic Life


Craig Venter

Synthetic biologist Craig Venter, whose team embarked on its quest to whittle life down to its bare essentials two decades ago.

Credit: Michael Lewis/Corbis Outline

Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent organism.

From Nature
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