M. mycoides

Bacterial gene therapy using a laser. Photo: MIT University

The first artificial bacteria - and all the others that will follow

The m-mycoides bacterium is synthesized from Craig Venter's laboratory. Photo: University of California at San Diego

Synthetic Biology: Venter and the Synthetic Genome 2007 – 2010

The synthetic bacteria M. mycoides JCVI-syn1 of the Craig Venter Institute. Photo by electron microscope University of California San Diego

Scientists have developed a synthetic magnum bacterial cell