Synthetic Macromolecules
February 28, 2011 | Terry Sharrer
“. . . the molecular parts kit for life need not be limited to parts likes genes and proteins that already exist in nature,” is the assertion of Princeton University chemistry professor, Dr. Michael Hecht. Work that researchers at the Craig Venter Institute have done to completely synthesize a self-replicating organism (2010) was based on genomic sequencing that exactly copied nature. Hecht’s group really started from scratch in work titled “De Novo Designed Proteins from a Library of Artificial Sequences Function in Escherichia coli and Enable Cell Growth.” MORE
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