Synthetic Mycoplasma bacteria. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Mycoplasma mycoides cells. This was the first self-replicati

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Synthetic Mycoplasma bacteria. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Mycoplasma mycoides cells. This was the first self-replicating bacterium controlled by a synthetic genome. It was developed by scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute, and announced in May 2010. To produce the cells a genome based on the Mycoplasma mycoides genome was synthesised and inserted into a Mycoplasma capricolum shell that had had its genetic material removed.

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