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Chemistry World July 2008 Ananyo Bhattacharya	Sparks of creation Chemists are at the forefront of synthetic biology, the burgeoning field that could soon create artificial life.
Wired January 2005 Oliver Morton	Life, Reinvented A group of MIT engineers wanted to model the biological world. But, damn, some of nature's designs were complicated! So they started rebuilding from the ground up - and gave birth to synthetic biology.
Chemistry World July 4, 2008 Emma Davies	Creating a Second Genetic Code Japanese researchers have made artificial DNA that acts like the real thing, even forming right-handed duplexes with complementary artificial strands.
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Lucks & Arkin	Synthetic Biology's Hunt for the Genetic Transistor How genetic circuits will unlock the true potential of bioengineering
Chemistry World June 30, 2011 Laura Howes	Chemically evolved bacteria European scientists have created an Escherichia coli strain with a separate genome using chlorinated DNA.
Chemistry World October 8, 2013 Hayley Birch	RNA mimic destined for synthetic genome US scientists have taken another step towards the goal of creating self-replicating molecules like those thought to have spawned life on Earth. The researchers made RNA-like polymers capable of copying short sections of genetic code that they suggest could act as genomes in synthetic cells.
Scientific American November 2007 Ed Regis	The Forgotten Code Cracker In the 1960s Marshall W. Nirenberg deciphered the genetic code, the combination of the A, T, G and C nucleotides that specify amino acids. So why do people think that Francis Crick did it?
Chemistry World October 19, 2015 Matthew Gunther	The house that DNA built The 2015 chemistry Nobel prize was awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for DNA repair.
Chemistry World May 20, 2010 Hayley Birch	The first synthetic cell A chemically synthesised chromosome has for the first time been transplanted into a cell to produce a synthetic bacterium.
Chemistry World January 30, 2014 Anthony King	Unnatural DNA links click for faster synthesis Human cells can still read strands of DNA correctly if they are stitched together using linkers not found in nature, a new study shows.
Science News September 21, 2002 Ivars Peterson	DNA's Error-Detecting Code Chemist Donall A. Mac Donaill of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, has now shown that patterns inherent in the chemical makeup of DNA correspond to a digital error-detecting code.
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Technology Research News December 3, 2003 Kimberly Patch	DNA assembles nanotube transistor Scientists have caused a transistor to self-assemble from a test tube concoction of DNA, proteins, antibodies, carbon nanotubes and minuscule specks of silver and gold. The feat shows that it is possible to assemble the smallest of machines and electronic devices by harnessing DNA's properties.
Chemistry World March 4, 2015 Thadchajini Retneswaran	Computational chemists unpick adenine -- thymine bias A chemical model has been created to investigate the evolution of guanine -- cytosine coding regions and found that certain spontaneous mutations are more likely to arise at specific regions of DNA.
Chemistry World February 18, 2008 John Bonner	Flicking the Acetyl Switch A strain of Escherichia coli that can produce proteins containing an acetylated version of the amino acid lysine could help to reveal how acetylation changes the function of hundreds of proteins inside cells.
Chemistry World November 13, 2014 Katrina Kramer	Persuading proteins to form porous polyhedra Researchers in the US have designed a hollow cube out of naturally occurring proteins, something that was previously only possible with DNA.
Bio-IT World August 15, 2005 Kevin Davies	Pimp My Genome As costs plummet, the ability to rapidly synthesize and customize longer, more intricate fragments of genomic DNA opens up a plethora of applications in basic and applied biology. A commercial synthetic biology industry is beginning to take shape.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 Kimberly Patch	DNA Machine Links Molecules Researchers have fashioned a nanomechanical device from DNA that can be programmed to align a series of molecules and fuse them together. The technique could potentially be used to put together designer polymers, encrypt information, and carry out computations.
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Kimberly Patch	DNA Bot Targets Cancer Researchers from Israel have constructed a molecular-size computer that is programmed to find signs of cancer cells, and when they are present, dispense DNA molecules designed to eradicate those cells.
Reactive Reports Apr/May 2005 David Bradley	At Last, the Structure of DNA Researchers have made a significant advance in our understanding of life's main molecule, using X-ray crystallography to determine the three-dimensional structures of nearly all the possible sequences of a macromolecule.
Chemistry World May 12, 2008 Simon Hadlington	'Super-yeast' tackles unnatural proteins Researchers in the US have engineered yeast cells to produce large amounts of proteins containing unnatural amino acids (UAAs) - a feat that has previously only been possible with bacteria.
Chemistry World June 9, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Artificial virus silences genes Scientists in Korea have created an artificial virus that can target the nucleus of cancer cells and knock out specific genes.
Technology Research News June 29, 2005	Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined.
Chemistry World August 2007 Philip Ball	Opinion: The Crucible The twist on DNA
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Emily Waltz	Reading and Writing a Book With DNA Researchers are storing digital information in the form of DNA, but is it practical? Which will get us control of massively large data: electronic or molecular memory?
Chemistry World April 19, 2012 Andy Extance	Polymers perform non-DNA evolution Scientists have found that six polymer alternatives to DNA can pass on genetic information, and have evolved one type to specifically bind target molecules.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Kimberly Patch	DNA in nanotubes sorts molecules Researchers have made a synthetic membrane that recognizes certain biochemical molecules and allows them to pass through. The method could be used to make biological sensors like those needed for genetics research, and to sort biological molecules,
Chemistry World March 1, 2011 Catherine Bacon	Unravelling chromosomes Danish scientists have used a micro device to isolate centimetre-long portions of human DNA to help study the genetic make-up of diseased cells.
Chemistry World August 26, 2014 Andy Extance	No-frills coats set a trend for designer viruses Dutch scientists have built a simple model of viruses' protective coats in an attempt to create viral mimics that could fight diseases, as opposed to causing them.
Chemistry World May 2008 Philip Ball i	Pulling our strings There is much more to DNA than that elegant double helix. The author explores the twists and tangles of chromatin.
Chemistry World December 20, 2011 Laura Howes	Cutting edge chemistry in 2011 With the help of an expert panel of journal editors Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in this year's crop of chemical science papers.
Chemistry World January 2012	DNA motors on With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success
Chemistry World September 4, 2013 Mark Peplow	Synthetic biology is bursting with life The field encompasses a vast array of research themes, from creating artificial life to engineering microbes to produce medicines or fuels. Through it all, though, runs a rich seam of chemistry.
Bio-IT World July 2005 Kevin Davies	Synthetic Biologists Assemble Codon Devices Company Emerging leaders in the new discipline of synthetic biology have raised $13 million in first-round venture funding for the field's first commercial entity - a startup company called Codon Devices.
Technology Research News December 15, 2004	DNA Makes Nanotube Transistors Researchers have harnessed the self-assembly abilities of DNA to construct field-effect transistors from carbon nanotubes.
Chemistry World October 14, 2011 James Mitchell Crow	Twist in the tale to improve gene therapy New insights into the physical properties of different forms of DNA could help to improve gene therapy, chemists in Spain and India say.
Chemistry World November 27, 2013 Jennifer Newton	A cytochrome from scratch Artificial proteins could be closer to participating in natural biochemical pathways after researchers show that bacteria will process amino acid sequences entirely unrelated to any natural protein to produce a fully functioning cytochrome.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003	Glow shows individual DNA Researchers have made a type of artificial DNA of that glows when it combines with a specific sequence of natural DNA. In principle, the method could be used to develop DNA chips that directly sense individual DNA molecules.
Chemistry World July 2008 Mark Peplow	Editorial: There's plenty of room in the middle Today, chemists and biologists are looking at the space between their own disciplines and asking big questions about where science at the interface might lead them.
Technology Research News December 29, 2004	DNA Makes and Breaks Particle Clumps Nanotechnology is all about manipulating materials on the molecular scale. Many teams of researchers are using artificial strands of DNA to do so.
Chemistry World March 29, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Gene gels pump out proteins Gels made with genes incorporated into the structure could soon make protein production cheaper and easier, according to researchers in the US.
Chemistry World July 15, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Synthetic enzyme catalyses Diels-Alder reaction The reaction is key to many organic syntheses and suggests that artificial enzymes could soon become part of the synthetic chemist's toolkit.
Science News March 25, 2006 Janet Raloff	Meat Poses Exaggerated Cancer Risk for Some People The National Toxicology Program confirmed that heterocyclic amines that form in overcooked meat can trigger colon cancer in animals and probably do the same in people.
BusinessWeek June 25, 2007 John Carey	On The Brink Of Artificial Life Craig Venter says success is near, but critics blast efforts to patent synthetic organisms.
Technology Research News April 23, 2003 Kimberly Patch	DNA motor keeps cranking Researchers have been making DNA perform all sorts of shape-changing tricks in recent years, but the need to add pieces of DNA at every step has made it a bit of a stretch to call these molecules motors. A method that keeps the process humming changes things.
Chemistry World December 10, 2014 Emma Stoye	Cutting edge chemistry in 2014 Highlights from last year's ground breaking chemical sciences research.
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Chemistry World September 14, 2011 David Bradley	Brewing up Synthetic Yeast Yeast with synthetic genomes could be very useful for medicinal chemists and drug companies.