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Getting Codons Right

Jun 15, 2007

A recent paper published in PloS ONE from a team of scientists at the University of Maryland presents research that might aid in smarter, and more targeted, drug design. Jonathan Dinman and team (one is a high school student!) have found the difference between near-cognate and non-cognate codons, two related components of mRNA that were defined but never described.

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