This is just plain weird: Rosenthal, a neurobiologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, was a grad student studying a specific protein in squid when he got an an inkling that some cephalopods might be different. Every time he analyzed that protein's RNA sequence, it came out slightly different. He realized the RNA was occasionally substituting A' for I's, and wondered...
from Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Edit Their Own RNA
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