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Niko McCarty 🧫

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Writing and editing stories about scientific progress, especially in biology.

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Synonymous mutations have massive effects on protein activity. Never knew that. Take a protein & make a fast + slow-translated version. For one enzyme, fast translation caused 20% drop in activity. Simulation + experiments show "entangled states." Weird. nature.com/articles/s4155…

Synonymous mutations have massive effects on protein activity. Never knew that. Take a protein & make a fast + slow-translated version. For one enzyme, fast translation caused 20% drop in activity. Simulation + experiments show "entangled states." Weird. nature.com/articles/s4155…