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The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (#INSDC) publishes guidance for prospective new members
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Gain of Function (GoF) experiments using infectious agents should be forbidden. the-microbiologist.com/opini…
Accommodation at work with thymidylate kinase journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128… will we find cases of the next step, assimilation ?
A zoo of Eukarya-like cells inhabited the planet one billion years ago: doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-0… This may support a revolutionary view of the origin of the first cells where Protokarya (ancestors of Eukarya) would precede Bacteria and Archaea
The B. subtilis genome sequence has been updated at the INSDC (Dec 31 2022) ami-journals.onlinelibrary.w…
Note that the sequence is continuously updated at mage.genoscope.cns.fr/micros…
Congratulations to Ken Timmis for the FEMS Lowff medal: a life devoted to the microbiology of environment
Frank #Drake passed away, this gives us an opportunity to investigate another #equation measuring the dangers of #genedrive onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
It is timely to resuscitate the reflection of Horton Johnson, which was overlooked for almost half a century. Is this linked to #Maxwell's demons power of #discrimination : sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.w…
Many years to get from hkumath.hku.hk/~imr/records0… to here doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.79… and the reflection on #Turing #machines remains open
On the role of pre-clinical studies: Is preclinical research in cancer biology reproducible enough? doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67527
The tip of the iceberg. Reproducibility in Cancer Biology: Challenges for assessing replicability in preclinical cancer biology doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67995
With the #omicron variant remember that we should hope for the best, at least in the middle term #attenuation is the rule as discussed in doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15…
Exploration of adaptive mutations has identified #pyrimidines and the metabolism of #cytosine as cofactors of the #cyclicAMPreceptor doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26098-x
An extremely important preprint: Human gene function publications that describe wrongly identified nucleotide sequence reagents are unacceptably frequent within the genetics literature #fakescience biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Towards an alternative to #CRISPR-Cas? NgAgo possesses guided DNA nicking activity academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
#PLOSONE: Queuine, a bacterial-derived hypermodified nucleobase, shows protection in in vitro models of neuro ... dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…