IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This chart was used in the National ...
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 ...
Unexpected genetic twist: An Oxford pond organism uses two universal stop codons to code for amino acids instead of ending protein synthesis. Why it matters: The discovery challenges the ...
Genetic activity underlies biological functions, so organisms have to make sure that the right genes are expressed at the right levels, in the proper places, at the correct times. Now scientists are ...
In April 2021, Jamie McGowan was running a routine test. A computational biologist at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, England, McGowan had fed a single-celled organism’s genetic data into a ...