Friday, February 19, 2010

Tinkering with Ribosomes and Protein Production

National Public Radio had a story this week about making new kinds of proteins by altering the way the ribosomes read the DNA code. As you know, ribosomes understand mRNA in groups of three bases called codons. Listen to this short report about scientists who have discovered how to get ribosomes to recognize codons made of four bases.

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