WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists working to make a synthetic life form reported a major step forward on Thursday, saying they had created an artificial genome and used it to bring a hollowed-out bacterium back to life.
They hope to use their stripped-down version of a bacterium to learn how to engineer custom-made microbes.
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