Researchers at University of Tsukuba have decoded the nuclear genome of Amorphochlora amoebiformis, a unicellular marine alga belonging to the chlorarachniophyte group. The work is published in the ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that non-coding parts of genes called introns can copy themselves and move around the genome. Nevertheless, these DNA sequences remain mysterious. Scientific ...

Ribozymes derived from the group II intron ai5γ collapse to a compact intermediate, folding to the native state through a slow, direct pathway that is unperturbed by kinetic traps. Molecular collapse ...

Most of the time, Stefano Torriani is a plant pathologist. His most recent research project revolved around the fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola where he analyzed a special class of genes that encode ...