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In a recent article published in the journal Nature, researchers used a classical concept in computational linguistics to design a new algorithm, LinearDesign, which optimized the structural stability ...

How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

Baidu Inc.’s preclinical studies showed the mRNA vaccine sequences for COVID-19 designed using its Lineardesign algorithm outperformed the benchmark sequences designed by traditional algorithms in ...

Today, thousands of databases with biological data are publicly available. They include data on gene and protein sequences and detailed measurements of different cellular parameters, such as the exact ...

A group of Stanford researchers has hacked Moderna’s messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine for the novel coronavirus, Motherboard first reported on Monday, and published its entire genetic sequence on the open ...

Daniel E. Eyler, Monika K. Franco, Zahra Batool, Monica Z. Wu, Michelle L. Dubuke, Malgorzata Dobosz-Bartoszek, Joshua D. Jones, Yury S. Polikanov, Bijoyita Roy, Kristin S. Koutmo Proceedings of the ...

A virus relies on the host's translation machinery to replicate itself and become infectious. Translation efficiency ...

Transcription and translation are processes a cell uses to make all proteins the body needs to function from information stored in the sequence of bases in DNA. The four bases (C, A, T/U, and G in the ...

A new technique reveals ribosome cooperativity, providing new insights into protein production. Researchers from Marvin Tanenbaum’s group at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, Netherlands) have ...

A study in the journal Nature is raising alarms about just how much wasn’t known about the mRNA shots for COVID-19 before billions of people received them. The study, titled ...

A virus relies on the host's translation machinery to replicate itself and become infectious. Translation efficiency ...