"Breakthrough: Engineered Yeast Achieves Over 50% Synthetic DNA in Groundbreaking Project"

Biologists have successfully engineered a strain of yeast with a genome that is over 50% synthetic DNA. The achievement was made by editing and synthesizing 6.5 of the yeast's chromosomes in the laboratory, along with stitching together an additional chromosome from edited bits of the genetic code. The project, led by the Sc2.0 consortium, aims to create a strain of yeast with a fully synthetic genome, which would be the first eukaryote with such a genome. The engineered yeast has potential applications in producing drugs and fuels, and the project is also advancing biological engineering methods.