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Scientists add third base pair to replicating DNA


Greg H.

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From: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/health/artificial-dna-life/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

 

The paper was published in Nature just this past week.

 

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13314.html

 

It's interesting that they were able to add completely synthetic genteic information and get that information to pass stably from one generation to the next via reproduction of the organism. I'm more excited about the posibilities this opens up for expanding our definition of what counts as life, especially in terms of space exploration.

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