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Death, taxes, and the genetic code?
1Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.
Chemistry & Biology
|August 2, 2003
Abstract:
The genetic code is an enduring feature of biology: only rare circumstances result in changes to translation of the code, at least in nature. Researchers are devising methods to engineer ribosome-synthesized polypeptides containing novel and potentially useful amino acids.