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Beyond Steel Tanks

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Credit: Universität Würzburg Archives His key insight hinged upon the fact that living cells are essentially bags of liquid filled with enzymes, or proteins that speed up chemical reactions. Water accounts for 70 percent of a bacterium by mass; the other 30 percent includes everything else: proteins, RNA, DNA, lipids, and so on.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (2016). Link A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity , by Jinek M. Link →A Brief History of De Novo Protein Design: Minimal, Rational, and Computational , by Woolfson D.N. Nature (2016). Science (2016).

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (2016). Link A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity , by Jinek M. Link →A Brief History of De Novo Protein Design: Minimal, Rational, and Computational , by Woolfson D.N. Nature (2016). Science (2016). Cell (2016).

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