Do-it-yourself biology: Learning to build a better microbe

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building a cell from scratch is a lot more complicated than building a computer. But that's just what synthetic biologists, including many at MIT, are trying to figure out how to do.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news151076880.html">Do-it-yourself biology: Learning to build a better microbe</a></p> <p>(PhysOrg.com) -- Building a cell from scratch is a lot more complicated than building a computer. But that's just what synthetic biologists, including many at MIT, are trying to figure out how to do.</p>