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Regulation of programmed stop codon readthrough

My research lies within the Life Sciences, and is specialized around questions related to developmental biology, and how gene expression is regulated in normal and diseased contexts.

Ylva Engström Ylva Engström

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Translation stalling proline motifs are enriched in slow-growing, thermophilic, and multicellular bacteria

Brewer, Tess E. and Andreas Wagner. 2022. Translation stalling proline motifs are enriched in slow-growing, thermophilic, and multicellular ...

Andreas Wagner Andreas Wagner

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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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Evolution of the Genetic Code: The Ribosome-Oriented Model

Barbieri, Marcello. 2015. Evolution of the Genetic Code: The Ribosome-Oriented Model. Biological Theory 10 (4): 301–10. doi:10.1007/s13752-0...

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