BioByte 158: Reducing the Amino Acid Alphabet Lends Insights to the Evolution of Life, Bridge Recombinases Enable Microbial Genome Rewriting, and Decoding ncORFs for Expansion of the Human Proteome

Welcome to Decoding Bio’s BioByte: each week our writing collective highlight notable news—from the latest scientific papers to the latest funding rounds—and everything in between. All in one place.Subscribe nowFernan Federici & Jim Haseloff, Confocal micrograph of Bacillus subtilis. Bacillus subtilis is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium, commonly found in soil. Fluorescent proteins (TagRFP-T, sfGFP, TagBFP, mKate2 and mOrange2), time-lapse confocal microscopy and biophysical models are bein...