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. 2019 Feb;566(7745):436.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00650-8.

Four new DNA letters double life's alphabet

Matthew Warren
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Four new DNA letters double life's alphabet

Matthew Warren. Nature. 2019 Feb.
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Keywords: Evolution; Genetics; Genomics; Molecular biology; Synthetic biology.

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