American microbiologists have created a primitive synthetic cell that grows normally and divides with a minimal set of genes. The Cell magazine writes about it. Scientists from the Venter Institute (JCVI) back in 2010 took the most low-organized and self-reproducing organism – mycoplasma, removed its DNA and instead “stuffed” a genetic code of 473 genes […]
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Microbes Raised From The Depths In The Pacific Ocean, Which Cannot Be Seen By Human Immunity
At a depth of more than 3000 m near the Phoenix Islands in the central part of the Pacific Ocean, bacteria were found that the innate human immunity simply does not see – these two species are so alien to each other. A group of biologists from Boston University and Harvard Medical School, which worked […]