The spliceosome: An atomic-level look into how cells avoid errors when manufacturing mRNA
A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...
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How Proteins Are Made: From DNA to Function
Protein synthesis is vital for life, translating genetic information from DNA to functional proteins through transcription ...
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The Neanderthal Legacy: Unraveling the DNA Story Within Us
The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...
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Uncovering how developmental genes are held in a poised state
New research has investigated the mechanism by which bivalency functions to poise genes for expression during cell differentiation, providing insight into a long-standing paradigm in the regulation of ...
Scientists recode the genome for programmable synthetic proteins
Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...