Artificial Bases Added to DNA

holy_calamity writes "Researchers have successfully added two 'unnatural' DNA letters to the code of life. They created two artificial base pairs that are treated as normal by an enzyme that replicates and fixes DNA inside cells. This raises the prospect of engineering life forms with genetic code not possible within nature, allowing new kinds of genetic engineering."

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Re:On the topic of "whatcouldpossiblygowrong"

[Jesus_666]

Here it does apply, but it's stuck on pretty much any story remotely involving science...

"Scientists Create Artificial DNA Bases With Unknown Properties" - whatcouldpossiblygowrong
"Ultra-Durable Ceramic Invented" - whatcouldpossiblygowrong
"New Discovery Makes X-Rays Safer" - whatcouldpossiblygowrong
"Groundbreaking New Image Processing Algorithm Makes Next-Gen GPUs Much Faster" - whatcouldpossiblygowrong
"Scientist Discovers That Shakespeare Had Tourette's" - whatcouldpossiblygowrong
"US Science Funding To Increase By 20%" - whatcouldpossiblygowrong
"[FAMOUS SCIENTIST] Dead At 71" - whatcouldpossiblygowrong
"Where Have Computer Linguistics Come Since The Seventies?" - whatcouldpossiblygowrong
"The Ten Greatest Discoveries Of Astrophysics" - whatcouldpossiblygowrong


If the software behind Slashdot automatically translated the tag "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" into "science" I'm pretty sure that the quality and applicability of the tag would not decrease in the slightest.