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These new technologies allow the jigsaw pieces to be thousands or even millions of base pairs long, making them easier to assemble.

After all, Z forms three hydrogen bonds with thymine, instead of the two hydrogen bonds that hold A–T base pairs together.

They created an AI that mines enormous datasets to determine the most likely distance between a protein’s base pairs and the angles of their chemical bonds—aka, the basics of protein-folding.

Nanopore sequencing works by passing DNA molecules through a tiny hole and measuring the change in an electric current running across the hole’s surface to work out the sequence of base pairs in the molecules.

Not only did the insertion work, the extra base pair was kept by offspring of the original bacterium.