After cloning and mutations, the scientists seem to have grown desperate to venture into new worlds of innovations. And the result — scientists have surprisingly transformed a bacteria species into another species completely for the first time.

No, this is not a Hollywood fiction, but a team of US scientists have actually done this by transplanting a complete set of DNA of a bacteria species!

Ah! Will this venture, turning out to be a success, lead towards constructing synthetic life in the coming future, rather as little as a decade?!

This is an amazing and interesting step towards transplanting the complete set of DNA, rather the genome, from one species into a completely different one. The recipient organism is both phenotypically and genotypically identical to the donor organism.

Besides opening up new horizons in the field of synthetic construction, hope this new genome transplantation-discovery will help produce ’synthetic microbes’ a necessary blessing amidst the growing need for green energy sources to battle global warming.

It can also be of great help in the field of pharmaceuticals, chemicals and textiles industries.

Image credit: Lartigue, et al

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