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Researchers rewire the genetics of E. coli, make it virus-proof – Ars Technica
A revised genetic code is a pathway for bacteria to do things that seem unnatural.
Enlarge/ On the outside, these heavily engineered bacteria look no different from their normal peers.
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Many of the fundamental features of life don’t necessarily have to be the way they are. Chance plays a major role in evolution, and there are always alternate paths that were never explored, simply because whatever evolved previously happened to be good enough. One instance of this idea is the genetic code, which converts the information carried by our DNA into the…
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