Rule-breaking discovery: A freshwater ciliate uses stop codons to build amino acids instead of ending proteins, defying the 'universal' genetic code. Genetic code flexibility: The organism reassigns ...
In April 2021, Jamie McGowan was running a routine test. A computational biologist at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, ...
A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...
Scientists from the Earlham Institute accidentally discovered a single-celled microorganism that violates one of the ...
Engineered microorganisms are widely used in industrial biotechnology and biopharmaceutical applications, including the ...