A photo from open sources After 15 years of work, scientists have successfully created a living cell that contains at least two unnatural constituents of DNA. A scientific breakthrough takes scientists one step further closer to the possibility of synthesizing cells capable of the need to produce medicine. And besides, this discovery opens the door to a future in which we can create living organisms that have never met on Earth. “Before us actually there is a living cell that is literally contains an expanded set of genetic information, “explains Floyd Romsberg, Research Team Leader, Recent 15 years engaged in creating a new life form. “It will not be superfluous note that we were able to achieve harmonious coexistence of life and synthetic genetic material, which is quite challenging task. Yes, we created synthetic DNA before however, this is essentially a new kind of cybernetic DNA and it has much more potential. “Nature Magazine, which provided this information, in turn, believes that scientists in a sense created an “alien”. All life on earth contains four types Nitrogen bases of the constituent DNA and called nucleotides: guanine (G), adenine (A), thymine (T) and cytosine ©. Thanks to the opening scientists, science has the opportunity to add to this set as at least two new artificially created nucleotides. Researchers they say that now the old four-nucleotide DNA model is not is the only way to create life. Some experts believe that after this discovery, scientists even can create a living organism with a set of extremely unfamiliar nucleotides. According to Stephen Benner, a pioneer in the field of such research conducted in the 1980s, new nucleotides are completely different from the four natural ones. In an interview Nature told Benner, “I think there’s no limit. If go back and go through the whole evolutionary process for last 4 billion years, then most likely you will get another genetic system. “The discovery of scientists at the same time scares and gives hope. In the end, such research can help us. discover drugs to treat diseases like cancer. If we, of course, on the way to this we will not create a new look of this cancer.
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