Six years ago, Boise State University biology professor Greg Hampikian and computer science colleague Tim Andersen announced that they had identified tiny DNA and protein sequences that were absent in nature. Hampikian termed these sequences ‘nullomers’ and a headline in the New Scientist magazine proclaimed the sequences as “DNA Too Dangerous to Exist.”
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