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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 secs

Dr. 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.

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Deepa Gahlot writes extensively on cinema, theatre, the arts, women's issues for several publications and websites. In the past, she worked for tribal development with an NGO, ran a print features syndicate and wrote for a few short documentaries. She has won the National Award for Best Film Criticism, edited several cinema journals. Her work has appeared in anthologies on women's studies, theatre and cinema. Her published books include, The Prithviwallahs (co-authored with Shashi Kapoor), and biographies of Shah Rukh Khan and Shammi Kapoor, Take 2: 50 Films that Deserve a New Audience and Sheroes: 25 Daring Women of Bollywood.

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