When proteins go on strike: Yeast colonies reveal hidden roles in some of life's most basic processes

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Feb 27, 2025, 11:15 am150 pts
A basic business principle is that no worker is irreplaceable; that also holds true for most proteins, the cellular factory workers of our bodies. If we fire a protein—that is, permanently delete it from our genome using genetic engineering—the cell will likely initiate a compensatory mechanism to replace…

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