Researchers confirm that the established pre-mRNA splicing mechanism that appears in textbooks cannot work in a subset of human short introns: A novel SAP30BP–RBM17 complex-dependent splicing has been uncovered.
MyJournals.org - Science - Molecules, Vol. 28, Pages 4460: Group I Intron as a Potential Target for Antifungal Compounds: Development of a Trans-Splicing High-Throughput Screening Strategy (Molecules)
In a letter to Members of the Court of Common Council about the Dooley ruling, Mayor Luke Bronin said that her decision in dissolving the consent decree emphasized the significant work that the city has done, the progress that the city has made and she found the claims made by the plaintiffs in their most recent motion were without merit.
A new model developed at Tel Aviv University offers a possible solution to the scientific question of why neutral sequences, sometimes referred to as "junk DNA", are not eliminated from the genome of living creatures in nature and continue to exist within it even millions of years later.