A Startup Is Pushing the Boundaries of Biology with Synthetic DNA
by The Daily Eye Team August 21 2015, 3:43 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 22 secsDr. Floyd Romesberg, one of the company?s co-founders, made news last year when he and a team of scientists successfully incorporated two synthetic nucleotide bases into the DNA sequence of a strain of E.coli bacteria. In a announcement yesterday, the company claimed to have taken its research a step further by incorporating and replicating brand new amino acids made with these synthetic bases into proteins.