A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

Protein improvement strategies today involve widely varying combinations of rational design with random mutagenesis and screening. To make further progress—defined as making subsequent protein ...

Open reading frames (ORFs) are parts of a reading frame that contain no stop codons. A reading frame is a sequence of nucleotide triplets that are read as codons specifying amino acids; a single ...

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The Oracle Database Documentation and other resources use these sample schemas to demonstrate the capabilities of Oracle Database and the SQL and PL/SQL languages ...

DFAST is a flexible and customizable pipeline for prokaryotic genome annotation as well as data submission to the INSDC. It is originally developed as the background engine for the DFAST web service ...

Classical conditioning is a way to learn using unconscious associations. Pavlov discovered classical conditioning when dogs started to salivate at the sound of a bell before they got food. The ...