Abstract
Recent advances in synthetic biology have made it possible to replicate an unnatural base pair in living cells. This study highlights the technologies developed to create a semisynthetic organism with an expanded genetic alphabet and the potential challenges of moving forward.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1869-1871 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 13 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 5 2014 |
Keywords
- expanded genetic alphabet
- synthetic biology
- unnatural base pairs
- xenobiotic nucleic acid (XNA)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine