You may know better than I. But I thought scientists have yet to observe or create a protein from AA. Or maybe it is they haven’t been able to create the DNA/Dubble Helix from protein. I forget which.
Last I heard, scientists were still working on the exact right conditions that would naturally take AA to DNA as a building block for life.
To be honest, I don’t know very much about the subject.
However, I did find this...
Jan. 7, 2011 — In a groundbreaking achievement that could help scientists “build” new biological systems, Princeton University scientists have constructed for the first time artificial proteins that enable the growth of living cells. ...”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110106145311.htm