Poet, who specifically studied molecular biology and programming, coded his own poems in the genome of the bacteria Escherichia coli.
The genomes of all living things are composed of DNA - a special polymer consisted of four types of monomers (referred to by the letters A, T, G and C - chemically they are the nucleotides). They are basic building blocks that make up proteins. Author of a new work devised his own "genetic code", where some three nucleotides encode letters of the alphabet.
To create a "genetic code" of the poetry took four years for the scientist. He made sure that the sequence of amino acids in the proteins synthesized with the sequence of the first row, you can turn to the second line, using a different code, where certain combinations of amino acids coded letters of the alphabet.
This is not the first time when researchers code by DNA words or phrases. Earlier, Craig Venter - the odious scientists involved in the project "Human Genome", he created the first organism with an artificial genome. He "wrote" into the genome his name and the names of his colleagues.
The genomes of all living things are composed of DNA - a special polymer consisted of four types of monomers (referred to by the letters A, T, G and C - chemically they are the nucleotides). They are basic building blocks that make up proteins. Author of a new work devised his own "genetic code", where some three nucleotides encode letters of the alphabet.
To create a "genetic code" of the poetry took four years for the scientist. He made sure that the sequence of amino acids in the proteins synthesized with the sequence of the first row, you can turn to the second line, using a different code, where certain combinations of amino acids coded letters of the alphabet.
This is not the first time when researchers code by DNA words or phrases. Earlier, Craig Venter - the odious scientists involved in the project "Human Genome", he created the first organism with an artificial genome. He "wrote" into the genome his name and the names of his colleagues.
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