Hot Plasmids: February 2026
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Blog Post
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Feb. 17, 2026, 2:15 p.m.
...genomically recoded organism with one stop codon. Nature, 639(8054), 512–521. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586... recoded organisms expand biological functions. Science, 342(6156), 357–360. https://doi.org/10.1126/science...imaging. Nature Methods, 23(1), 143–152. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-025-02962-2
Xiong, H., Chang, Q....microscopy. Nature Methods, 22(6), 1288–1298. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-025-02676-5
Updated AAV2 and...in mammalian cells. Science, eadz9353. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz9353
An engineered bacterial...summarize, but far from simple to create.
Most organisms have three stop codons: UAG ("amber"), UAA ("ochre... ("opal"). Previous work by the Jesse Rinehart, George Church, and Farren Isaacs labs engineered an E....