That's very cute, they've engineered a transfer RNA for a messenger RNA quadruplet.
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Victoria Hughes
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BBC News - Animal's genetic code redesigned
The first few sentences-
Researchers say they have created the first ever animal with artificial information in its genetic code.
The technique, they say, could give biologists "atom-by-atom control" over the molecules in living organisms.
One expert the BBC spoke to agrees, saying the technique would be seized upon by "the entire biology community".
The work by a Cambridge University team, which used nematode worms,appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
The worms - from the species Caenorhabditis elegans - are 1mm long, with just a thousand cells in their transparent bodies.
What makes the newly created animals different is that their genetic code has been extended to create biological molecules not known in the natural world.
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