Scientists create bacterium capable of replicating with an artificial DNA base pair

[BornFromTheVoid]

For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters — A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms. That alphabet has just grown longer, researchers announce, with the creation of a living cell that has two 'foreign' DNA building blocks in its genome.

 

http://www.nature.com/news/first-life-with-alien-dna-1.15179

 

 

Fascinating stuff!

[knocker]

Fascinating indeed.