Make ‘Designer Genes’ from Scratch Begins with Yeast

May 29, 2014

(Phys.org) – Australia is to play a significant role in the quest for artificial life as it joins an international project to create the world’s first synthetic yeast, we can announce today. Under the leadership of Jef Boeke from New York University, the Yeast 2.0 project is a consortium of yeast laboratories in the US, UK, China, Singapore, India and now Australia aims to produce the first synthetic yeast by 2017.