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Expanding the genetic alphabet

BioTechniques (2017) 62(6) 252-253
DOI: 10.2144/000114554
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Synthetic biologists have engineered a semisynthetic organism that can store increased genetic information using an alphabet consisting of six letters that form three base pairs. Janelle Weaver learns how they did it.

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Weaver, J. (2017). Expanding the genetic alphabet. BioTechniques, 62(6), 252–253. https://doi.org/10.2144/000114554

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