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Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution
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Interdisciplinary organization led by Dr. Steven Benner combining chemistry, synthetic biology & astrobiology, translating basic research into medical and commercial technologies. Visit our website at https://ffame.org/.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Fresh off the lab press! New ACS Chem Bio paper from Benner and colleagues reveals improved Z nucleosides for AEGIS DNA, reducing deprotonation, Z:G mismatches, and boosting fidelity.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Improving the Fidelity of Replication of a Six-Letter DNA Alphabet
The Watson–Crick-Franklin (WCF) rules describing nucleobase pairing in antiparallel strands of DNA and RNA can be exploited to create artificially expanded genetic information systems (AEGIS) with as ...
pubs.acs.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Attention Astrobiology and Explorers!

Dr. Jan Spacek will be presenting a colloquium this Thursday Nov. 6th from 12:45 to 1:45 pm at the @ufresearch.bsky.social campus in the Bryant Space Science Center in Room 217.
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A team of scientists at FfAME (Steve Benner, Jan Spacek, Clay Abraham) joined European astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch to publish this eLetter in Science that reexamines, at last, a misinterpretation published in Science by Klaus Biemann and his coworkers. Links below!
October 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Hello Researchers and Science Enthusiasts,

We are proud to announce that the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME) now has a new social media presence!
October 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM