For the very first time, Biotechnologists have witnessed the Emergence of a completely new Gene.

By forcing the yeast species Saccharomyces pastorianus to eat complex sugars, the cells started to form a new sort of “mouth” by recombining parts of already existing genes into a new gene.

This spectacular observation confirms what biotechnologists had suspected for decades: living things can make new genes by copying and then editing them, which is a driving force of evolution.

Read the full story: TU Delft
Scientific publication: PLoS Genetics