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double-stranded RNA had a powerful ability to interfere with gene expression.
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
U6 enters the scene tightly entwined with U4, and together they find their place on the intron. But then U2 butts in, stealing away U6, and U4 exits the stage in a huff. Now U6 and U2, with some help from U5, are free to produce the chemistry needed to complete the splicing reaction. Together they act as a ribozyme, catalyzing the mRNA splicing pro
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These are not messenger RNAs, but rather noncoding RNAs—the same general category as ribosomal RNA, transfer RNA, telomerase RNA, and microRNAs. But what they’re doing is still, for the most part, a mystery.
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
the Carlson curve: the epic collapse in costs for sequencing DNA. Thanks to ever-improving techniques, the cost of human genome sequencing fell from $1 billion in 2003 to well under $1,000 by 2022. That is, the price dropped a millionfold in under twenty years, a thousand times faster than Moore’s law. A stunning development hiding in plain sight.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Today, anyone can go to PersonalGenomes.org and view my public profile,
Ed Regis • Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
Oxytricha has 100 million truly tiny chromosomes, each harboring just a single gene.