Silicon added to life's toolbox after scientists at Caltech make bacteria that form organic carbon-silicon bonds
Molecules containing both carbon and silicon have become a standard part of synthetic chemistry, but nature only uses silicon in inorganic compounds, such as the shells of diatoms. Now, Frances Arnold and her collaborators at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have engineered bacteria to produce carbon–silicon bonds.
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