title: Synthetic biology: now that we're creators, what should we create?
abstract: A 'synthetic' microbe has been created by introducing the artificially produced genome of one species into the cytoplasm of another. The technology allows the introduction of easily transferable adaptive units, as well as sets of genes that have likely never been transferred successfully.
authors: Department of Biology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA. fcohan@wesleyan.edu
authors: Frederick M
authors: FM
authors: Cohan
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D057005:Bioengineering; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D045623:Mycoplasma capricolum / Q000235:genetics; D009176:Mycoplasma mycoides / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D010641:Phenotype
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial