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Synthetic biology

Understudies of DNA and RNA

With the help of engineered polymerases and reverse transcriptases, synthetic nucleic acids can encode and pass on genetic information.

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  1. Pinheiro, V.B. et al. Synthetic genetic polymers capable of heredity and evolution. Science 336, 341–344 (2012).

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Rusk, N. Understudies of DNA and RNA. Nat Methods 9, 530–531 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2058

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