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Active Matter: Newfound Order in “Disordered” Proteins

Intrinsically disordered regions of proteins may not be functionless after all. They appear to be multi-functional. Read More ›
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Garbage Goodbye: In Blow to Junk RNA, “Majority” of Transcription Not “Background Noise”

A 2026 paper reports on an AI trained on genomic data, including data from a 2024 paper, enabling it to predict when transcription would be initiated. Read More ›

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