Published the day after four lab chiefs asked Congress to screen synthetic DNA orders.
Development
A synthesis method stitches a bacterial genome error-free in days
Claim
Caltech's Sidewinder DNA synthesis misfires once per 10 million joins, stitching a 12,500-letter E. coli genome error-free in days, finally fast enough to build what models like Evo 2 design faster than anyone can assemble.
Reported metric: 1 error per 10M joins
Reporting date: (not necessarily the event date)
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