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Scientists accidentally discover a pond organism that uses stop codons to build proteins instead of ending them — rewriting biology’s most universal rule

Somewhere in a sample of ordinary pond water, a single-celled organism has been quietly breaking one of biology’s most fundamental rules. Condylostoma magnum, a free-living ciliate barely visible to ...
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A pond organism found at Oxford University breaks biology’s most universal rule — its DNA uses stop codons to build proteins instead of ending them

In April 2021, Jamie McGowan was running a routine test. A computational biologist at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, England, McGowan had fed a single-celled organism’s genetic data into a ...