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ReviewAnnual review of biophysics2023

The Expanded Central Dogma: Genome Resynthesis, Orthogonal Biosystems, Synthetic Genetics.

Karola Gerecht, Niklas Freund, Wei Liu, Yang Liu, Maximilian J L J Fürst, Philipp Holliger

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Review in Annual review of biophysics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Reconstituting alternative life using the test-bed of cell-free systems.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  5. The design and engineering of synthetic genomes.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Karola GerechtMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom; email: ph1@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.
Niklas FreundMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom; email: ph1@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.
Wei LiuMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom; email: ph1@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.
Yang LiuMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom; email: ph1@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.
Maximilian J L J FürstMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom; email: ph1@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.
Philipp HolligerMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom; email: ph1@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U105178804
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic biology seeks to probe fundamental aspects of biological form and function by construction [i.e., (re)synthesis] rather than deconstruction (analysis). In this sense, biological sciences now follow the lead given by the chemical sciences. Synthesis can complement analytic studies but also allows novel approaches to answering fundamental biological questions and opens up vast opportunities for the exploitation of biological processes to provide solutions for global problems. In this review, we explore aspects of this synthesis paradigm as applied to the chemistry and function of nucleic acids in biological systems and beyond, specifically, in genome resynthesis, synthetic genetics (i.e., the expansion of the genetic alphabet, of the genetic code, and of the chemical make-up of genetic systems), and the elaboration of orthogonal biosystems and components.

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Genetic CodeNucleic AcidsSynthetic BiologyNucleic Acidsgenome synthesisorthogonalitysynthetic biologysynthetic geneticsunnatural base pairsXNA

Identifiers

PMID37159296
PMCPMC7614659

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