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A bizarre genetic code found in a microscopic pond organism is rewriting what scientists thought DNA could do
In a shallow pond at Oxford University Parks, surrounded by dog walkers and rowing crews, a single-celled organism has been ...
Most hypotheses suggest that earlier forms of life had partial genetic codes and used fewer than 20 amino acids. To test these hypotheses, a team from Columbia and Harvard decided to see if they could ...
Genetic code surprise: An Oxford pond microbe uses two universal stop codons to code for amino acids, breaking a key rule of molecular biology. Why it matters: The discovery could alter evolutionary ...
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