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How many genes did Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn3.0 contain?
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A scanning electron micrograph of cells of Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0—a synthetic bacterium.
In the field of synthetic biology, the minimal cell known as Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn3.0 was created by researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in 2016. This genomically minimized organism contained 473 genes and 531,560 base pairs.1