New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-letter genetic code
Definitely interesting work, and some very clever solutions to difficult problems, but to be clear, they only had a single unnatural base pair, and it was only in a plasmid.<p>Addressing the other comments about this leading to some crazy scifi scenario, imagine telling someone you used machine learning to identify spam emails and they started freaking out about how you&#x27;re going to start Skynet. If you understand how things really work you can see it&#x27;s not just implausible, it&#x27;s that things fundamentally don&#x27;t work that way.