From NewScientist: Artificial letters added to life’s alphabet
The molecular pair that worked surprised Romesberg. “We got it and said, ‘Wow!’ It would have been very difficult to have designed that pair rationally.”
From NewScientist: Artificial letters added to life’s alphabet
The molecular pair that worked surprised Romesberg. “We got it and said, ‘Wow!’ It would have been very difficult to have designed that pair rationally.”
I like this, even if this new base pair isn’t used in an engineered organism you could put a few of these in the introns as simple markers, maybe encode the name of the (creator? writer? coder?) there. Might make it easier to track and maybe even eliminate engineered genes, especially if they happen to cross over into wild-type populations. I think I would feel better though, if they had gone with something which could not be used without an artificial polymerase, making it harder for these things to cross over.
Obviously that means that God must have done it in the first place. Duh.
Well God did a pretty shitty job of building the human eye then.
Yeah, He was totally hung over that day. He figured half an eye was better than none at all, though.