Not quite sure I'd describe that as a bottom up approach - they sell it as that - but in reality it's more like Jenga. Seeing which bits you can remove without the system failing over.
The technical fact that the genome was artificially synthesized is just showmanship - they still had to put into an existing cell.
It's like claiming you made a car from scratch by replacing a chip - which you've copied from the existing chip but left a few bits out - and now the indicators don't work, but you can still sort of drive.
The technical fact that the genome was artificially synthesized is just showmanship - they still had to put into an existing cell.
It's like claiming you made a car from scratch by replacing a chip - which you've copied from the existing chip but left a few bits out - and now the indicators don't work, but you can still sort of drive.