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Artificial nucleotide bases evolved to bind to cancerous cells

08-Jun-2015

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Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution created two new bases (called Z and P) which were then present in evolved soltuions of DNA strands that preferentially bound to cancerous liver cells over healthy ones.

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Floyd Romesberg

Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute.

Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME)

Company providing commercial physical and biological research and development.

Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS)

Scientific journal providing information from the all fields of chemistry.

Steven Benner

Founder of Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution.

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Synthetic Biology