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Ta onta ienai te panta kai menein ouden
“All entities move and nothing remains still”

Mycoplasma laboratorium is the first living organism created from a synthetic genome. The genome was assembled by the Craig Venter institute and added to a cell, resulting in the synthetic genome being adopted as the “operating system” of the cell. This project was a landmark in the (make of it what you will) view of DNA as crucial software and the cell as a superfluous husk.
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