A microscopic organism just broke one of biology’s “universal” rules—and scientists didn’t see it coming. Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com A test designed to push the limits of single cell DNA sequencing ended up revealing something far more surprising: a microscopic organism from a pond at Oxford University Parks appears to use the genetic code in a way scientists had not seen before. Dr. Jamie McGowan, a postdoctoral scientist at the Earlham Institute, was studying the genome of a protist

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