Cellular Metabolism Reveals Insights into Biology and Potential for Therapeutic Discovery Agilent case study Imagine you’ve been reading a really great book, but for some reason you’re unable to finish it. Maybe you lost the book, or maybe you get to the best part only to find someone tore out the key chapter. Frustrating, to say the least, but you can probably get another copy. An analogous situation can sometimes occur during the biological process of translation, when an mRNA is “read” by a ribosome to produce a protein. If the mRNA contains an ill-placed termination codon, translation gets halted prematurely and a functional protein – perhaps an essential one – does not get produced. The consequences of this situation can be much more than frustrating; the lack of that pro

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