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Synthetic amino acid enables safe, new biotechnology solutions to global problems

2015-01-22 00:29:45| Biotech - Topix.net

Scientists from Yale have devised a way to ensure genetically modified organisms can be safely confined in the environment, overcoming a major obstacle to widespread use of GMOs in agriculture, energy production, waste management, and medicine. The Yale researchers rewrote the DNA of a strain of bacteria so that it requires the presence of a special synthetic amino acid that does not exist in nature to activate genes essential for growth.

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