Construction of an Escherichia coli genome with fewer codons sets records

Nature, Published online: 16 May 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01584-x

The biggest synthetic genome so far has been made, with a smaller set of amino-acid-encoding codons than usual — raising the prospect of encoding proteins that contain unnatural amino-acid residues.

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