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by MD-PhD Student on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @03:01PM (#22237132) Attached to: Artificial Bases Added to DNA

This is all well and good, but if you don't design new DNA transcription and mRNA translation machinery (tRNA) to deal with these new bases, your body will have no way to create new proteins with the new DNA bases. No new proteins = useless new DNA.

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