Science Daily November 18, 2019
A team of researchers in the US (Northwestern University, University of Illinois, Stanford University, UT Austin, industry) developed a set of design rules to guide how ribosomes, a cell structure that makes protein, can incorporate new kinds of monomers, which can be bonded with identical molecules to form polymers. The rules guide how ribosomes, a cell structure that makes protein, can incorporate new kinds of monomers, which can be bonded with identical molecules to form polymers. These findings are an exciting step forward to achieving sequence-defined synthetic polymers. The ability to harness and adapt cellular machinery to produce non-biological polymers would bring synthetic materials into the realm of biological functions. This could render advanced, high-performance materials such as nanoelectronics, self-healing materials, and other materials of interest for the Army…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLEÂ
Expanding the chemical substrate scope of flexizymes for genetic code reprogramming. Credit: Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 5097 (2019)Â