LifeMicrobe with the smallest genome yet pushes the boundaries of life Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria News
LifeE. coli genome has been remade with 101,000 changes to its DNA The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes News