Patrick Cai News Today

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA.

A global consortium of scientists has successfully combined 7.5 synthetic chromosomes into a single yeast cell which is more than 50% synthetic, and replicates in a similar way to wild yeast.

"There is nothing like it in nature," geneticist Patrick Cai told Newsweek.