Thursday, May 8, 2014

'Alien' life form grown in a lab: Scientists add unnatural DNA strands to the genetic code of bacteria to create a new strain

'Alien' life form grown in a lab: Scientists add unnatural DNA strands to the genetic code of bacteria to create a new strain | Mail Online: "You might think that the creation of a new alien belongs within the pages of a science fiction novel.

But a replicating ‘alien’ life-form has been made by scientists who introduced DNA molecules not found in nature to a common bacterium."

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