Monday, June 7, 2021

Scientists reprogrammed bacteria to be immune to viruses

"Cells normally only use 20 building blocks, called amino acids, to build all their proteins, but now, scientists can introduce "unnatural amino acids" for use in protein construction, which have the same basic backbone as all amino acids, but novel side chains."

https://www.livescience.com/designer-e-coli-resists-viral-infection.html

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