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October 17, 2017
A new study by the Söll lab in cooperation with David Liu’s lab at Harvard reveals the structure of an elusive functional domain of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase, an...
October 6, 2016
Humans need eight essential trace elements for good health, and one of them is selenium – a powerful antioxidant that is important for thyroid and brain function as well as...
Chenguang Fan
July 26, 2016
After four years of postdoctoral research at the Söll lab, Chenguang Fan accepted Assistant Professor position at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University...
Genetic code.
May 1, 2016
In the journal Angewandte Chemie International Ed., researchers from the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and...
April 21, 2016
A Yale research team has created a mutant protein-making factory in bacteria that churns out proteins containing beta-amino acids, molecules not normally found in nature but...
ACS Synthetic Biology Podcast
February 16, 2016
ACS Synthetic Biology February 2016 podcast interview with Dieter Soll on expansion of the genetic code: https://player.fm/series/acs-synthetic-biology-podcast/february-2016
November 16, 2015
Using bacterial genomes that have been entirely recoded, Yale scientists have developed a way to induce cells to produce novel protein-based polymers that can be used for new...