Unexpected genetic twist: A freshwater protist was found to repurpose two or even all three genetic stop codons to build proteins, overturning a core rule of molecular biology. Why it matters: This ...
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Pond protist defies all known genetic stop signals
Rule-breaking discovery: Researchers found a pond protist that reassigns all three standard genetic stop codons to amino ...
Scientists from the Earlham Institute accidentally discovered a single-celled microorganism that violates one of the ...
A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...
Climate change is raising surface temperatures of natural waters, increasing concern about pathogenic species in aquatic environments that can infect humans ...
Amateur mycologist Tyson Ehlers spent years wandering the forests in the Slocan Valley, collecting and identifying fungi and ...
A protist species called Stentor coeruleus appears to navigate by sensing physical shapes — a discovery that suggests even the simplest life forms can exploit geometry to survive. Just one mm long, ...
The U.N. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) on Sunday approved the listing of 40 new species for international protection, including the snowy owl featured in ...
Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have discovered three previously unrecognized lineages of the protist Bodo, each ...
Expansion microscopy image of Lacrymaria, a ciliated eukaryotic microorganism, collected from environmental samples in Tokyo. Highlighted in green is tubulin, the major protein component of ...
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