Yeast chromosome numbers minimized using genome editing

Gianni Liti ()

Nature, 2018, vol. 560, issue 7718, 317-318

Abstract: Genome-editing approaches have been used to fuse 16 yeast chromosomes to produce yeast strains with only 1 or 2 chromosomes. Surprisingly, this fusion has little effect on cell fitness.

Keywords: Biotechnology; Microbiology; Synthetic biology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-018-05309-4

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