{"id":323207,"date":"2010-02-15T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2010-02-15T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T21:36:11","slug":"synthetic-biology-marches-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/323207","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic biology marches on"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Via KurzweilAI.net<\/a> — Synthetic biology<\/a> is here to stay and is branching out.<\/p>\n

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DNA 2.0: A new operating system for life is created<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New Scientist Life, Feb. 14, 2010<\/p>\n

University of Cambridge scientists have created a new way of using the genetic\u00a0code<\/a>, allowing\u00a0protein<\/a>s to be made with properties that have never been seen in the natural world.<\/p>\n

The breakthrough could eventually lead to the creation of new or “improved”\u00a0life<\/a> forms incorporating these new materials into their tissue. For example, they could help make drugs that can be taken orally without being destroyed by the acids in the digestive tract, or produce entirely new polymers, such as plastic-like materials;\u00a0organism<\/a>s made of these cells could incorporate the stronger polymers and become stronger or more adaptable as a result.<\/p>\n

In the genetic\u00a0code<\/a> that\u00a0life<\/a> has used up to now, there are 64 possible triplet combinations of the four\u00a0nucleotide<\/a> letters; these genetic “words” are called codons. Each codon either codes for an amino acid or tells the\u00a0cell<\/a> to stop making a\u00a0protein<\/a> chain. The\u00a0research<\/a>ers have created 256 blank four-letter codons that can be assigned to amino acids that don’t even exist yet.
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Via KurzweilAI.net — Synthetic biology is here to stay and is branching out. DNA 2.0: A new operating system for life is created New Scientist Life, Feb. 14, 2010 University of Cambridge scientists have created a new way of using the genetic\u00a0code, allowing\u00a0proteins to be made with properties that have never been seen in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}