January 2022 ROTM
Synthetic Genomes
Zhang W, Mitchell LA, Bader JS, Boeke JD. Synthetic Genomes. Annual Review of Biochemistry 89:77???101 (2020). DOI ?? PubMed ?? Publisher
This review covers DNA synthesis, genome editing, the Sc2.0 project, and the ethics of writing genomes from scratch ??? a solid snapshot of synthetic-genome research as of 2020.
Featured as Apimba's Read of the Month for January 2022 (the article itself was published in 2020).