Engineered genetic machinery derived from E. coli delivers new amino acids to proteins

Friday, August 3, 2018 - 12:20 in Biology & Nature

Proteins—the molecular machines that drive the processes underlying biology—are made from just 20 canonical building blocks called amino acids. For nearly two decades, scientists have sought methods to engineer new amino acids to build proteins.

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