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A Facile Protocol to Generate Site-Specifically Acetylated Proteins in Escherichia Coli
Published on: December 9, 2017
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Synthetic biologists have engineered a semisynthetic organism that can store increased genetic information using an alphabet consisting of six letters that form three base pairs. Janelle Weaver learns how they did it.
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