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Technology Review: Synthetic Genome Reboots Cell
Topic: Miscellaneous 3:05 pm EDT, Jun  8, 2010

Venter and his colleagues are working with Novartis and the National Institutes of Health to synthesize cassettes--clusters of genes that could be inserted into a synthetic genome--for every known flu virus in an effort to streamline the vaccine manufacturing process. They envision a system where, if a new strain such as H1N1 emerged, developing a vaccine would be as straightforward as shuffling genes encoding the relevant viral fragments into a synthetic genome. This could then yield a cell that could be used to quickly manufacture the product.

Technology Review: Synthetic Genome Reboots Cell



 
 
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