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== Use as a watermark == In 2010, when [[Craig Venter]] unveiled the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by [[synthetic biology|synthetic DNA]] he described how his team used frequent stop codons to create [[Mycoplasma laboratorium#Watermarks|watermarks]] in RNA and DNA to help confirm the results were indeed synthetic (and not contaminated or otherwise), using it to encode authors' names and website addresses.<ref>{{cite web |first=Craig |last=Venter |author-link=Craig Venter |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_unveils_synthetic_life?language=en|title=Watch me unveil "synthetic life"|date=21 May 2010 |work=TED Talk}}</ref>
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