Hacking life: Scientists ‘recode’ DNA in step toward lab-made organisms

(By Sharon Begley for STAT)

Millions of years of evolution gave life on earth a genetic dictionary with 64 words. Harvard University scientists thought they could do better. In an intriguing step toward lab-made organisms, they reported on Thursday that they created a complete bacterial genome with only 57 of those words — and freed up the deleted seven to have completely new meanings that, one day, could include new biological functions. Continue reading article here…..

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