Artificially Expanded Genetic Information System Archives - Astrobiology

Like adding new letters to an existing language’s alphabet to expand its vocabulary, adding new synthetic nucleotides to the genetic alphabet could expand the possibilities of synthetic biology. This image shows a rendering of RNA polymerase (center) and a synthetic nucleotide (lower right). CREDIT UC San Diego Health Sciences

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Enzymes Can’t Tell Artificial DNA From The Real Thing

by Keith CowingDecember 15, 2023December 15, 2023

The genetic alphabet contains just four letters, referring to the four nucleotides, the biochemical building blocks that comprise all DNA.