Scientists report completion of chromosome XI, a major step towards creating the world's first synthetic yeast
Originally published by University of Nottingham, on November 8, 2023 Saccharomyces cerevisiae, SEM image. Credit: Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy/CC BY-SA 3.0 A UK-based team of Scientists, led by experts from the University of Nottingham and Imperial College London , have completed construction of a synthetic chromosome as part of a major international project to build the world's first synthetic yeast genome . The work, which is published in Cell Genomics , represents completion of one of the 16 chromosomes of the yeast genome by the UK team, which is part of the biggest project ever in synthetic biology ; the international synthetic yeast genome collaboration. The collaboration , known as " Sc2.0 " has been a 15-year project involving teams from around the world (UK, US, China, Singapore, UK, France and Australia), working together to make synthetic versions of all of yeast's chromosomes . Alongside this paper, another nine publications h...