Synthetic biology is a new up and coming strand of biology defined as 'designing and constructing biological devices, biological systems, and biological machines for useful purposes' this brings about a wide range of new possibilities, especially when looking into creating new 'unnatural' Amino acids. there are only 20 naturally occurring amino acids even though there are 61 codons excluding stop and start codons. scientists are therefore able to 'code' for new amino acids which can lead to genetic alterations to organism.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22167-synthetic-upgrade-for-fruit-flys-dna/ This article from the New Scientist reviews scientist ability to 'hack into' the genetic code of fruit flies and use them to create new proteins by editing the amino acids and making them create some 'unnatural' amino acids. which can then be used to code for and create new proteins which in theory could be used to create organism with new or improved properties such as a "bulletproof fly"
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