Click chemistry could provide total chemical DNA synthesis, study shows
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 11:00
in Biology & Nature
An interdisciplinary study has shown for the first time that 'click chemistry' can be used to assemble DNA that is functional in human cells, which paves the way for a purely chemical method for gene synthesis. Human cells can still read through strands of DNA correctly despite being stitched together using a linker not found in nature.