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The sweet allure of XNA

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Oligonucleotides with unnatural sugar backbones that can be replicated in vitro may open up new avenues for synthetic biology and beyond.

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Figure 1: Selection techniques for XNA-compatible polymerases.

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  1. Fintan R. Steele and Larry Gold are at SomaLogic, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, USA.,

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