{"id":3681,"date":"2012-11-21T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T21:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2012-11-21T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T21:24:04","slug":"chemical-biology-dnas-new-alphabet-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/2012\/11\/21\/chemical-biology-dnas-new-alphabet-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical biology: DNA&#8217;s new alphabet (Nature)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Steven Benner set out to re-engineer genetic molecules, he didn&#8217;t  think much of DNA. \u201cThe first thing you realize is that it is a stupid  design,\u201d says Benner, a biological chemist at the Foundation for Applied  Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the article here: &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/chemical-biology-dna-s-new-alphabet-1.11863\">http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/chemical-biology-dna-s-new-alphabet-1.11863<\/a>&gt;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Steven Benner set out to re-engineer genetic molecules, he didn&#8217;t think much of DNA. \u201cThe first thing you realize is that it is a stupid design,\u201d says Benner, a biological chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/2012\/11\/21\/chemical-biology-dnas-new-alphabet-nature\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11916,7049],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dna","tag-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}