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First life with 'alien' DNA

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An engineered bacterium is able to copy DNA that contains unnatural genetic letters.

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  1. Ewen Callaway
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Callaway, E. First life with 'alien' DNA. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.15179

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