In April 2021, Jamie McGowan was running a routine test. A computational biologist at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, ...
The pond at Oxford University Parks is not much to look at. It is a small, artificial freshwater basin on the edge of campus, ...
A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...
The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...
Scientists from the Earlham Institute accidentally discovered a single-celled microorganism that violates one of the ...
Human genes are written in long strings of three-letter units composed of four different nucleotides. These units—or codons—specify one of many amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Multiple ...
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds. In a new study, MIT chemical engineers have ...