SynMoss project grows moss with partially synthetic genes
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SynMoss project grows moss with partially synthetic genes

A Chinese team of life scientists‚ microbiologists‚ plant researchers and seed designers has developed a way to grow engineered moss with partially synthetic genes. In their project‚ reported in the journal Nature Plants‚ the group engineered a moss that is one of the first living things to have multiple cells carrying a partially artificial chromosome.