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Synthetic ‘Upgrade’ for fruit fly’s DNA

Published on 14 August, 2012

The genetic code of the fruit fly Drosophila has been hacked into, allowing it to make proteins with properties that don’t exist in the natural world. […] Jason Chin at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge… More…