September 10, 2021 02:10 pm GMT
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Artist and genetic engineers re-create the imagined scents of long-extinct flowers
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg collaborated with biotechnologists and a scent researcher to harness the tools of synthetic biology to reproduce approximations of extinct flowers' smells. They extracted DNA fragments from preserved flower samples, compared those to existing species, resynthesized the gene sequences, and then inserted those genes into yeast to produce the scents. — Read the rest
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