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A recent study from the Rudner Lab (https://t.co/GYDr0g3j5y) out now in @GenesDev reveals that bacteria use intrinsically disordered proteins to sense and respond to cell envelope defects: https://t.co/hijEXZHv51 https://t.co/vhNfXtY3hw

DNA doesn’t do much work. It mainly stays at home in the nucleus of our cells, not venturing forth. Its primary activity is protecting the information it encodes and occasionally replicating itself. RNA, on the other hand, actually goes out and does real work. Instead of just sitting at home curating information, it makes real products, such as

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In a tragic coda to this early story of eugenics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was still enmeshed in the controversy over eugenics as recently as January 2019, this time through the disgraceful racist utterances of Nobel laureate James D. Watson, cofounder of the DNA double helix and one of the laboratory’s longtime fellows, whom they stripped of

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