New letters for life's alphabet

Ross Thyer () and Jared Ellefson
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Ross Thyer: Ross Thyer and Jared Ellefson are in the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1095, USA.
Jared Ellefson: Ross Thyer and Jared Ellefson are in the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1095, USA.

Nature, 2014, vol. 509, issue 7500, 291-292

Abstract: The five bases found in nucleic acids define the 'alphabet' used to encode life on Earth. The construction of an organism that stably propagates an unnatural DNA base pair redefines this fundamental feature of life. See Letter p.385

Date: 2014
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