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Scientists have completed the first fully synthetic eukaryotic organism, with yeast engineered by international collaborators over 20 years. Australian researcher Hugh Goold and colleagues synthesized the final chromosome at a Sydney lab, contributing to the Synthetic Yeast Genome Project led by Jef Boeke at New York University.

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