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        Right now, if you want to create a new gene — maybe to make a tomato plant more bug resistant or to add a modification to your army of supersoldier goats — the process is slow and expensive. Bases, the building blocks of <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,153,204);color:rgb(0,153,204);line-height:22px;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" href="https://www.livescience.com/37247-dna.html">genetic code</a>, get added one at a time to a growing strand of DNA. The process sometimes fails, and it always runs out of juice once a sequence reaches just 200 bases (a very short patch of code in genetic terms), according to a <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,153,204);color:rgb(0,153,204);line-height:22px;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/dbnl-fcb061318.php">statement</a> from the researchers.</p><span style="font:400 16px/22px "Open Sans",sans-serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(91,91,91);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">
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        Want to go longer? Better to write lots of different bits of genetic code and then stitch them all together using enzymes — chemicals that living things produce <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,153,204);color:rgb(0,153,204);line-height:22px;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" href="https://www.livescience.com/45145-how-do-enzymes-work.html">to help along the chemical reactions</a> in their bodies — even knowing how likely that is to fail. The new method, which the students published Monday (June 18) in the journal <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,153,204);color:rgb(0,153,204);line-height:22px;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4173">Nature Biotechnology</a>, could eliminate many of those problems. [<a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,153,204);color:rgb(0,153,204);line-height:22px;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent" href="https://www.livescience.com/cms/countdowns/20873-genetics-numbers-dna-basics-nigms">Genetics by the Numbers: 10 Tantalizing Tales</a>]"</p><p style="margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(91,91,91);text-align:left;color:rgb(91,91,91);text-transform:none;line-height:22px;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><a href="https://www.livescience.com/62856-overnight-genetic-genes-sequence.html">https://www.livescience.com/62856-overnight-genetic-genes-sequence.html</a></p><p style="margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(91,91,91);text-align:left;color:rgb(91,91,91);text-transform:none;line-height:22px;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><br></p></div>