Science news articles about 'double mutants'

... small RNAs—known as the “smRNAome”—and found that ein5/abh1 double mutant plants ramped up small RNA ... enough to reveal something not seen before: the mutant plant cells were churning out small RNAs ...

... that lacked one or both copies of Mdm2. Mice with the double-mutant p53 that also had no Mdm2 died ... -degrading protein Mdm2 also would protect mutant p53 "with dire consequences." By the same token, ...

... either FMR1 or FXR2, they have a slightly shorter cycle but the difference is not dramatic. "However, the double-mutants (those without both genes) have no rhythm at all," said Nelson. "This has ...

... interaction, researchers need to use what they call double-mutant strains. GIANT-Coli allows ... time that a high-throughput generation method for double mutants of E. coli has been developed. Why is ...

... no difference, but the SodB mutants were less able to survive and cause disease in a mouse. The double mutants were even more impaired. They were much, much less likely to survive in the mouse than ...

... expected, showing a smaller cost to multiple resistance". Even more surprisingly, in some combinations (12%) the double mutants to two given antibiotics survive even better than if they were resistant ...