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GM Organism Produces New Amino Acid

Posted by michael on Tuesday January 14, 2003 @08:20AM from the one-for-the-road dept.

blamanj writes "Scientists led by Scripps Research Institute chemistry professor Dr. Peter Schultz have engineered a version of the E. coli bacteria that can produce an amino acid not found in nature. Story at the Environment News Service and Science Daily."

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Question by bobibleyboo · 2003-01-14 09:28 · Score: 1, Troll

How do we know that this amino acid is not produced in nature? Last time I checked we had not catalogued every living creature on earth let alone analyzed all of the chemicals that each of them produce.