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Ten Bucks for a Good Headline on Splicing and Duplication

Mar 08, 2007

A team of scientists based in Barcelona recently published a paper in PLoS Computational Biology testing the relationship between alternative splicing and gene duplication, looking specifically at how these mechanisms had an impact on protein sequence and structure.

 

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