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Article: Synthetic Biology Adds Unnatural Amino Acids To Mammalian Cells.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Science Editor
With everything going green these days, it's unlikely that there's still much of a future in plastics, as Walter Brooke's Mr. McGuire famously advised Dustin Hoffmann's Benjamin in "The Graduate."
Synthetics, though, are another matter. Synthetic biology currently is reporting near-weekly progress in improving - or at least expanding - Mother Nature's repertoire.
Last month, researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute reported that they had managed to transplant an entire bacterial genome from one bacterial species to another, a feat that co-author Craig Venter called a "huge enabling step" toward the creation of artificial ...