> Engineering living (or quasi-living) things beyond adding this or that protein is still more science fiction than science. Its certainly much farther along t

> Engineering living (or quasi-living) things beyond adding this or that protein is still more science fiction than science. Its certainly much farther along than you might think: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/1040.full https://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/1040.full (link to paper "Design of a synthetic yeast genome") edit: more recent info on the project here https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05164-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05164-3