Artificial DNA achieves self-replication outside living cells

A research group including Doctoral Student Yuta Yamagishi and Professor Masayuki Su'etsugu of the Department of Life Science at the Graduate School of Science at Rikkyo University designed and constructed a 53-kb long artificial genomic DNA encoding all 26 protein genes required for Escherichia coli -type DNA replication (Replication-Cycle Reaction: RCR).