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Researchers describe a general and highly efficient approach for incorporating a variety of unnatural amino acids into proteins at desired locations in mammalian cells.
As protein chemistry becomes faster and more automated, a few tough problems in purification and analysis still remain. Incremental evolution in chromatography and revolutionary developments in other techniques are finally starting to lower some of the field's highest hurdles. Alan Dove reports.