How Scientists Are Hacking the Genetic Code to Give Proteins New Powers
June 20th, 2023Via: Nature:
By modifying the blueprint of life, researchers are endowing proteins with chemistries they’ve never had before.
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Making this system accept unnatural, or ‘non-canonical’, amino acids in a test tube required several key tweaks.

“Non-canonical” ? Who do these scientists think they are? Oh, right. Please forgive me, Scientists, for asking such a stupid question.