Jason Chin (SSBSS 2019 Speaker) and colleagues  create altered synthetic genome, in move with potential medical benefits.

“It was completely unclear whether it was possible to make a genome this large and whether it was possible to change it so much,” said Jason Chin, an expert in synthetic biology who led the project.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/15/cambridge-scientists-create-worlds-first-living-organism-with-fully-redesigned-dna

“Total synthesis of Escherichia coli with a recoded genome” Nature, May 15, 2019.

See you in Pisa for the SSBSS 2019 Jason Chin’s Lectures!!!