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E. coli can make perfect copies of our proteins, amino acid for amino acid, but if it can’t add the sugars, many of its proteins are useless to us. Schultz and his colleagues have found a way around this shortcoming. Instead of adding the sugar after a protein is built, they add it to individual amino acids. They then engineer E. coli to recognize
... See moreCarl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life

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An Institution for the Amateur Biologist (diybio.org).
Ed Regis • Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
In the Process of Touching – Interrelated Reactions – Edgar Lissel
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