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Promotors/transcription and translation in humans mapped by international consortium
Central dogma of Molecular Biology from the Economist writerIN 1958 Francis Crick, one of the co-discoverers of the double-helical structure of DNA, spelled out what came to be called the “central dogma” of molecular biology. In a nutshell, this says that DNA makes RNA, which makes proteins. In other words DNA—which carries an organism’s genetic code—“writes” that code into bits of RNA, a similar, but not identical molecule. These then act as messengers which tell a cell’s protein-making machinery what to make. |
EvolutionThe value of a good editorA hitherto-unknown way to evolvehttp://www.economist.com/node/21542382 |