Danielle Mahon and Michael-Christopher Keogh

Feb 19, 2016

EpiCypher has appointed Danielle Mahon as director of scientific sales and Michael-Christopher Keogh as director of markets and application development. Mahon previously held positions in sales at Eppendorf, Mettler Toledo, and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Prior to joining EpiCypher, Keogh served as a principal investigator in the department of cell biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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An analysis in Genome Biology compares the lengths of proteins across more than 2,300 species, finding similar length distributions.

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A paper in Cell reports that octopuses use RNA editing to help them adjust to different water temperatures.