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Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
Scientists Rewrite the Genetic Code of E. Coli, and It’s Drastically Different From Anything Found in Nature
The synthetic bacteria contain a shorter genetic code with 57 codons rather than 64, freeing up space for further edits that ...
New study shows that E. coli can evolve antibiotic resistance during treatment
Scientists have documented a notable case of antibiotic resistance evolving within a critically ill patient during treatment ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN7d
Synthetic E. coli with compressed DNA outsmarts viruses in radical genetic leap
In a landmark feat of genetic engineering, researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge have ...
New Scientist on MSN8d
E. coli genome has been remade with 101,000 changes to its DNA
The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...
Scientists shrink the genetic code of E. coli to contain only 57 of its usual 64 codons
The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies ...
Caffeine may help E. coli resist antibiotics — but more research is needed
A laboratory experiment suggests caffeine may boost E. coli’s antibiotic resistance. However, whether this discovery applies ...