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New chemical process makes it easier to craft amino acids that don't exist in nature

Every protein in your body is made up of the same 20 building blocks called amino acids. But just because nature is stuck with a limited toolkit doesn't mean humans can't expand it.

New chemical process makes it easier to craft amino acids that don't exist in nature

Chemists describe a powerful new way to create new-to-nature, 'unnatural' amino acids, which could find use in protein-based therapies and open up novel branches of organic chemistry.

ScienceDaily