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In this April 25 photo, post doctoral fellow Leslie Mitchell, works at her bench at a New York University lab in the Alexandria Center for Life Sciences in New York, where researchers are attempting to create completely man-made, custom-built DNA. Mitchell says it took her a couple months to build her chromosome but longer to debug. “The tiniest change in the code can have dramatic effect on growth,” she said. “We are learning new rules about how cells operate by building from scratch.” - Mary Altaffer — The Associated Press

How scientists redesign DNA codes

NEW YORK >> Scientists are working to create yeast that operates with custom-made DNA.They have long been able to make specific changes in an organism’s DNA. Now, they’re pushing into...