New technique reveals unseen information in DNA code

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 11:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Imagine reading an entire book, but then realizing that your glasses did not allow you to distinguish "g" from "q." What details did you miss? Geneticists faced a similar problem with the recent discovery of a "sixth nucleotide" in the DNA alphabet.

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