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Researchers led by Jason Chin at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) have developed a viable Escherichia coli strain that uses only 57 codons—and it took only around 100,000 changes to the genome to do it. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪 #biotech #synbio
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Bacteria built with smallest genetic code ever
The engineered <i>Escherichia coli</i> have only 57 codons compared with the usual 64
