[ExI] Directed Evolution Teaches Nature the Unnatural, Brings Silicon to Life

[Giulio Prisco]

Directed Evolution Teaches Nature the Unnatural, Brings Silicon to Life

Caltech researchers have achieved a spectacular demonstration that
living organisms can be persuaded to make silicon-carbon bonds. The
study is the first to show that nature can adapt to incorporate
silicon into carbon-based molecules, the building blocks of life. This
breakthrough could have en important impact on how medicines and other
chemicals are made in the future, and open new horizons to synthetic
biology....

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