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Now Chin's team have created 256 blank four-letter codons that can be assigned to amino acids that don't even exist yet.
In the longer term it might be possible to create cells that produce entirely new polymers, such as plastic-like materials. Organisms made of these cells could incorporate the stronger polymers and become stronger or more adaptable as a result.
What's more, they've shown that these amino acids can react with each other to form a different kind of chemical bond to those which usually hold proteins together in their three-dimensional shape.
could give life some new abilities which are not found anywhere in nature.
cells that produce entirely new polymers, such as plastic-like materials.
Originally posted by DaMod
To me, sometimes, there is a lot of potential fact in fiction.