The result was a base editor, called ABE, that could switch
A-T base pairs into G - C pairs in about 50 percent of human cells tested.
A new base editor (bottom) uses DNA adenine deaminase to make the opposite change, transforming
A-T base pairs to G - C pairs.
Not exact matches
By adding a new
base pair, X and Y, to DNA's
A-T and G - C
pairs, researchers will enable organisms to build proteins from as many as 172 different amino acids.