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RE: (Re-)Create Life in a Lab - Part III
just WOW.
Introducing alien DNA is one thing and amazing itself, but making it to code for the insertion of non-proteinogenic amino acids takes it to a whole different level!
Yes i remembered reading the first paper in 2014 where they just show replication of the plasmid and it was already impressive. I found out about the second one while writing the article and it blew my mind! I think now the most difficult part is specific tRNA loading of different unnatural amino acids in the same cell, but that's definitely exciting just as a proof of concept.