Synthetic organelle introduces a new genetic code to cells
Singularity Hub - 03-Apr-2019No need to wait for evolution - we will be able to manipulate life forms soon
Floyd Romesberg
Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute.
Floyd E. Romesberg is an American biotechnologist, biochemist, and geneticist formerly at Scripps Research in San Diego, California. He is known for leading the team that created the first Unnatural Base Pair (UBP), thus expanding the genetic alphabet of four letters to six in 2012, the first semi-synthetic organism in 2014, and the first functional semi-synthetic organism that can reproduce its genetic material in successive offspring, in 2017.
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Scripps Research Institute
- Medical research facility with focus on research and education in the biomedical sciences
Details last updated 04-Dec-2019
Floyd Romesberg News
Unnatural microbe can make proteins
BBC - 29-Nov-2017Bacterium's DNA modified to incorporate six letters instead of four. E. coli bug could hold on t...
First stable semisynthetic organism created
Kurzweil Network - 03-Feb-2017Bacterium with two new synthetic bases (called X and Y) added to the four natural bases (A, T, C,...
Artificial nucleotide bases evolved to bind to cancerous cells
The Scientist - 08-Jun-2015Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution created two new bases (called Z and P) which were then...
