The CRISPR technology commonly used for genome editing was originally based on bacterial defense mechanisms that arose to protect against bacteriophages, though their mode of activation has largely ...
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Complex Life May Be a Billion Years Older Than We Thought
The origins of complex, nucleated cellular life – everything from amoebas to humans – may date back a lot further in Earth's ...
As an undergraduate at Radcliffe College—Harvard's allgirl sister institution—in the 1960s, Susan Gottesman earned pocket money working as a technician in Jim Watson's Harvard lab. "I would hear ...
Imagine being one cartwheel away from changing your appearance. One flip, and your brunette locks are platinum blond. That’s not too far from what happens in some prokaryotes, or single-cell organisms ...
This study was led by Prof. Ming Li and Prof. Hua Xiang (Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Early bioinformatic analyses revealed that, in haloarchaeal genomes, the ago genes are ...
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Complex life developed much earlier than previously thought, study finds
Life on Earth began simply. For billions of years, tiny microbes ruled the planet. Then, one day in deep time, something changed. Cells gained a nucleus, built inner compartments and learned to ...
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