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A yeast for all reasons

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Scientists have begun to overhaul a yeast's genome to make it more stable, engineerable and evolvable. Remarkably, the part-natural, part-synthetic yeast cells function and reproduce without obvious ill effects. See Letter p.471

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  1. Peter J. Enyeart is at the Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.,

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  2. Andrew D. Ellington is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.,

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Enyeart, P., Ellington, A. A yeast for all reasons. Nature 477, 413–414 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/477413a

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