That's very cute, they've engineered a transfer RNA for a messenger RNA quadruplet.
http://www.pnas.org/content/101/20/7566.full -- rec -- On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Victoria Hughes <[email protected]>wrote: > BBC News - Animal's genetic code > redesigned<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14492948> > > The first few sentences- > > Researchers say they have created the first ever animal with artificial > information in its genetic code. > > The technique, they say, could give biologists "atom-by-atom control" over > the molecules in living organisms. > > One expert the BBC spoke to agrees, saying the technique would be seized > upon by "the entire biology community". > > The work by a Cambridge University team, which used nematode worms,appears > in the Journal of the American Chemical > Society<http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja2054034> > . > > The worms - from the species *Caenorhabditis elegans* - are 1mm long, with > just a thousand cells in their transparent bodies. > > What makes the newly created animals different is that their genetic code > has been extended to create biological molecules not known in the natural > world. > > ..... > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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