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Harvard “EXPERTS” blow away 16 billion

January 22, 2009

Ever toyed with the idea of sending your spoiled offspring to a US-based elite academy, say Harvard University?
Forget it. Harvard, the oldest institution of higher learning in the US (world-renowned for its multi-billion foundation and its 43 Nobel laureates!), is setting its sights lower.
Most laureates are still aboard, but many billions vanished recently. Blown away! […]

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Genetic Code

January 9, 2009

E. crassus - a marine protozoan - uses UAG to code for cysteine AND seleno selenocysteine. I don’t think that I will need to implement this ambiguity into the algorithms used for codon optimization but I will stay tuned.
Read more at:
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/108/3
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55327/ (registration needed)