digitizing biology

By Rosanne Lindsay, Traditional Naturopath|2026-03-27T13:20:19-05:00March 27th, 2026|Categories: blog, March 2026|Tags: digitizing biology, synthetic, synthia|

There is a new microorganism in town.... a chemically synthesized DNA sequence! Her name? "Synthia" the time from the first official synthetic genomic sequence assembled in 1995, to a newly created genome inserted into a bacterium, makes a short 15 years. The company, J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). is working with pharmaceutical company Novartis, based [...]