New 8-Letter DNA Rewrites the Genetic Code | SciShow News

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Scientists have successfully created synthetic DNA with twice as many base pairs as normal, with potential implications in medicine, data storage, and even understanding how life could evolve elsewhere in the universe. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/aaft-h-e021919.php http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6429/884 https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-funded-research-creates-dna-like-molecule-to-aid-search-for-alien-life http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/suppl/2019/02/20/363.6429.884.DC1/aat0971_Hoshika_SM.pdf http://www.ffame.org/downloads/Hachimoji_PressRelease_FfAME_20190221.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00650-8 https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/dnas-coding-power-doubled-65499 https://gizmodo.com/freaky-eight-letter-dna-could-be-the-stuff-aliens-are-m-1832823430 http://www.ajnr.org/content/35/1/1.full https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/basics/dna https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/james-watson-francis-crick-maurice-wilkins-and-rosalind-franklin http://www.whatislife.ie/downloads/What-is-Life.pdf https://www.nature.com/scitable/definition/rna-polymerase-106 https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/eight-letter-genetic-code-hints-at-how-alien-life-might-evolve/3010145.article https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.5b02251 http://www.reach-unlimited.com/p/1257785612/dna-as-biomolecular-data-storage-medium https://slate.com/technology/2013/02/dna-testing-richard-iii-how-long-does-dna-last.html http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/11/30/dna-base-pair-codon-artificial/ https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2015/02/data-storage-for-eternity.html http://science.sciencemag.org/content/337/6102/1628.full https://newatlas.com/book-dna-data-storage/23848/ ---------- Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ADN_animation.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hachimoji_DNA_base_pairs.svg
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