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String Bio has developed a pioneering technology that utilizes advanced microbial fermentation to convert methane into valuable products. Biologists have produced a strain of yeast with more than 50% synthetic DNA, a major step towards creating the first complex cell with an entirely synthetic genome. Researchers have created designer versions of all yeast chromosomes and incorporated almost half of them into cells that can survive and reproduce. THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids can now be grown in bioreactors, suggesting a future where cannabis-related compounds are brewed rather than farmed. Scientists have rewritten yeast DNA to create a cell like nothing in nature. Dr. GeoChurch's team has systematically reconstructed yeast gene networks using mRNA data, revealing new co-regulated gene clusters.