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Life’s Building Blocks
Oct 13, 2022
Gene clean
A new study in
C. elegans
reveals how the germ line preserves the integrity of…
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Life’s Building Blocks
Sep 5, 2020
Dissecting a giant
A new cryo-EM study reveals the detailed structure of RNF213, a giant protein…
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eLife
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Life’s Building Blocks
Jun 30, 2020
Potential mechanisms behind inherited brain disorders
Electrophysiology reveals how two mutations…
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eLife
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Life’s Building Blocks
Feb 19, 2019
Eye size is pre-programmed in zebrafish
Even with mutations that affect early eye development…
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eLife
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Life’s Building Blocks
Oct 30, 2018
Like a monkey in the DNA jungle
A protein important in the fight against cancer must find cuts in our…
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eLife
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Life’s Building Blocks
May 6, 2018
Loss of proofreading not enough to cause cancers
A DNA polymerase losing some proofreading activity…
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eLife
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Life’s Building Blocks
Mar 14, 2018
The guardian of the genome
The protein p53 can protect the DNA from mutations.
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eLife
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Life’s Building Blocks
Aug 9, 2016
Understanding the mother’s curse
A ‘male-harming’ mutation in fruit flies makes males less fertile…
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