Enzyme motif reveals how plastic-munching bacteria are evolving across the seven seas

Deep within the world's oceans lurk marine bacteria armed with plastic-munching enzymes, their evolution seemingly sculpted ...

KATMAP: A new way to understand and predict gene splicing

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, Who Discovered Molecular ‘Scissors’ to Cut DNA, Dies at 94

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...