{"id":33788,"date":"2017-01-24T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T06:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/new-organisms-have-been-formed-using-the-first-ever-6-letter-genetic-code"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:50:19","slug":"new-organisms-have-been-formed-using-the-first-ever-6-letter-genetic-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/new-organisms-have-been-formed-using-the-first-ever-6-letter-genetic-code","title":{"rendered":"New Organisms Have Been Formed Using the First Ever 6-Letter Genetic Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-organisms-have-been-formed-using-the-first-ever-6-letter-genetic-code.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have engineered the first ever \u2018semi-synthetic\u2019 organisms, by breeding <em>E. coli<\/em> bacteria with an expanded, six-letter genetic code.<\/p>\n<p>While every living thing on Earth is formed according to a DNA code <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phschool.com\/science\/biology_place\/biocoach\/bioprop\/dnabase.html\">made up of four bases<\/a> (represented by the letters G, T, C and A), these modified <em>E. coli<\/em> carry an entirely new type of DNA, with two additional DNA bases, X and Y, nestled in their genetic code.<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by Floyd Romesberg from the Scripps Research Institute in California, engineered synthetic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nucleotide\">nucleotides<\/a> \u2014 molecules that serve as the building blocks of DNA and RNA \u2014 to create an additional base pair, and they\u2019ve successfully inserted this into the <em>E. coli\u2019s<\/em> genetic code.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-organisms-have-been-formed-using-the-first-ever-6-letter-genetic-code\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-organisms-have-been-formed-u...netic-code<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have engineered the first ever \u2018semi-synthetic\u2019 organisms, by breeding E. coli bacteria with an expanded, six-letter genetic code. While every living thing on Earth is formed according to a DNA code made up of four bases (represented by the letters G, T, C and A), these modified E. coli carry an entirely new type [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65292,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33788\/revisions\/65292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}