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  • Bacteria
  • Microbiology
Heather Feaga, Microbiology, is identifying and characterizing strategies used by gram-positive bacteria to detect and rescue stalled ribosomes.

Heather Feaga, Microbiology, is identifying and characterizing strategies used by gram-positive bacteria to detect and rescue stalled ribosomes.

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Field Note

by Sydney Zarb ’27 As an undergraduate in Cornell Animal Science, with the goal of becoming a veterinarian, I want to more deeply understand solutions that benefit cows, the environment and the people that depend on them. I am particularly...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Bacteria
An illustration using figures called “similarity trees,” used to infer the evolution of enzyme components essential to transposons, or “jumping genes,” functioning.

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Researchers identified several families of "jumping genes," or transposons, in cyanobacteria and Streptomyces that can find and insert themselves at the telomere, with benefits for the transposon and their bacterial host.

  • Microbiology
  • Evolution
  • Genetics