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Human mitochondria require mtRF1 for translation termination at non-canonical stop codons

Krüger, Annika, Cristina Remes, Dmitrii Igorevich Shiriaev, Yong Liu, Henrik Spåhr, Rolf Wibom, Ilian Atanassov, Minh Duc Nguyen, Barry S. C...

Joanna Rorbach Joanna Rorbach

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Towards designing less-toxic antibiotics

Mitochondria are essential organelles found in every human cell, required to convert food into usable energy.

Joanna Rorbach Joanna Rorbach
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