Yeast chromosome numbers minimized using genome editing

Yeast chromosome numbers minimized using genome editing

Yeast chromosome numbers minimized using genome editing, Published online: 01 August 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05309-4

Genome-editing approaches have been used to fuse 16 yeast chromosomes to produce yeast strains with only 1 or 2 chromosomes. Surprisingly, this fusion has little effect on cell fitness.

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