The radical possibilities of man-made DNA Floyd E. Romesberg

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Nov 26, 201800:13:46Science & Medicine

Every cell that's ever lived has been the result of the four-letter genetic alphabet: A, T, C and G -- the basic units of DNA. But now that's changed. In a visionary talk, synthetic biologist Floyd E. Romesberg introduce...

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