Researchers extend genetic code of an entire animal
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 07:31
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers Sebastian Greiss and Jason Chin of the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, have succeeded in manipulating the DNA of a nematode such that a 21st protein was created and subsequently naturally replicated throughout the entire worm. The result, which the two describe in their paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is the first ever animal with artificial information embedded in its genetic code.