This third base pair, an artificial addition to nature’s A-T and C-G base pairs, was developed by chemists at the Scripps Research Institute. It has now found what may be its first practical use.

The first semi-synthetic organism, an E. coli bacteria expressing proteins made from “unnatural base pairs.” (Credit: William B. Kiosses) Romesberg provides a demonstration of this by adding in two ...

The Base Pair initiative, which has been around for 27 years, started with a simple question: "How can the sole academic medical center for this state help advance science education in the public ...

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) claim to have created the first stable semisynthetic organism with extra bases added to its genetic code. The single-celled organism is also ...

A base pair is a fundamental unit of double-stranded nucleic acids, such as DNA and RNA.It consists of two complementary nucleobases bound to each other by hydrogen bonds. The base pairing rules state ...

Home Insights Discrimination of Single Base Pair Mismatch. Discrimination of Single Base Pair Mismatch. By Jayne Bates . November 14, 2014. November 15, 2014 (Vol. 34, No. 20) ...

Base Pair Biotechnologies, Inc., The Aptamer Discovery Company™, has completed a $3.2 million series A-3 financing round and opened a new facility.

Researchers investigating expanding the DNA “alphabet”—developing artificial bases that can potentially encode more information than the standard A, T, C, and G—have found that DNA polymerase is more ...

One bone (Vi-80) from Vindija Cave, Croatia, stood out in that ∼ 99% of the 63-base-pair mtDNA segments and ∼ 94% of the 119-base pair segments are of Neanderthal origin.