Bacterial genomes are remarkably stable from one generation to the next but are plastic on
an evolutionary time scale, substantially shaped by horizontal gene transfer, genome …

The increase of publicly available sequencing data has allowed for rapid progress in our
understanding of genome composition. As new information becomes available we should …

James A. Shapiro proposes an important new paradigm for understanding biological
evolution, the core organizing principle of biology. Shapiro introduces crucial new molecular …

In the present study, the effects of orange peel essential oils (EOs) on the physiochemical,
rheological, particle size and zeta potential distribution of the developed aloe vera gel …

New Findings• What is the topic of this review? Have recent experimental findings in
evolutionary biology concerning the transmission of inheritance opened the way to a …

Introns are ubiquitous in eukaryotic genomes and have long been considered as 'junk
RNA'but the huge energy expenditure in their transcription, removal, and degradation …

The terms" proteolytic enzyme" and" peptidase" have been treated as synonymous, and all
proteolytic enzymes have been considered to be hydrolases (EC 3.4). However, the recent …

Group I introns are intervening sequences that have invaded tRNA, rRNA and protein
coding genes in bacteria and their phages. The ability of group I introns to self-splice from …

Synthetic Biology is the 'Engineering of Biology'–it aims to use a forward-engineering design
cycle based on specifications, modelling, analysis, experimental implementation, testing and …

Despite multiple control measures, Escherichia coli O157: H7 (STEC O157: H7) continues to
be responsible for many food borne outbreaks in North America and elsewhere …