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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Top Ten Scientific Breakthroughs of 2014

Top Ten Scientific Breakthroughs of 2014 | Space Exploration | Sci-News.com: "‘Alien’ bacterium: scientists have engineered Escherichia coli that harbors two additional nucleotides (X and Y) in addition to the normal G, T, C, and A that make up the standard building blocks of DNA. Such synthetic bacteria can’t reproduce outside the lab, but they may be used to create designer proteins with ‘unnatural’ amino acids."

This false-color scanning electron micrograph shows Escherichia coli. Image credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories / NIAID / NIH.

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