Friday, February 1, 2008

Artificial Bases Added to DNA

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 30, @10:55AM
from the totally-faked-you-out-man dept.
holy_calamity writes "Researchers have successfully added two 'unnatural' DNA letters to the code of life. They created two artificial base pairs that are treated as normal by an enzyme that replicates and fixes DNA inside cells. This raises the prospect of engineering life forms with genetic code not possible within nature, allowing new kinds of genetic engineering."

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