Resumen de Life rewritten to read alien code
The language of life has been rewritten by a team of synthetic biologists led by Farren Isaacs at Yale University. A bacterium has had its genome recoded so that one of its genetic words has been freed up to impart a different meaning, allowing the creation of proteins that don't exist in nature. The work has been described as the first step towards a new biology because the techniques used should open the door to reinventing the meaning of several words simultaneously. This could lead to novel types of biomaterials and drugs with exotic properties.
