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Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? by imnotreallynew on Friday September 16, 2022 @02:47PM (#32870407)
Do you mean completely from scratch?

If so, why would one want to do that versus taking an existing cell and injecting custom DNA?

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? by koeng on Friday September 16, 2022 @07:25PM (#32873331)
You can't jump over fitness troughs. For example, full tRNA recoding. Plus, it is neat to make life from chemicals.
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