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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: Venter Cooks Up a Synthetic Genome in Record Time
Elizabeth Pennisi
Sequencing maverick J. Craig Venter has built a viral genome from scratch in just 2 weeks, but some scientists are skeptical that his method will work for organisms with larger genomes.