Sunday 11 May 2014

First Living Organism That Transmits Added Letters in DNA 'alphabet' Created

The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) scientists have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes an added pair of DNA "letters," or bases, not found in nature. The cells of this unique bacterium can replicate the unnatural DNA bases more or less normally, for as long as the molecular building blocks are supplied. "Life on Earth in all its diversity is encoded by only two pairs of DNA bases, A-T and C-G, and what we've made is an organism that stably ...




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