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Published online 4 February 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news-1
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DNA look-alike fools enzyme
Artificial molecule acts as template for DNA.
Enzymes evolved to work with DNA accept a cheap imitation, say US researchers.
DNA polymerase, that copies chromosomes before a cell divides, will duplicate a synthetic molecule called threose nucleic acid - TNA - Jack Szostak and his colleagues at Harvard General Hospital in Boston have found1.
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