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Science 31 January 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5607, p. 640
DOI: 10.1126/science.299.5607.640
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METABOLIC ENGINEERING:
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Robert F. Service

Two years ago, a team of chemists engineered the genes of a bacterium to incorporate a 21st amino acid into its proteins. Now, in a paper in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the team reports going one step further by engineering a bacterium that also manufactures the compound by itself.

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