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A molecular geneticist at Montana State University has discovered a cellular process, the creation of the amino acid cysteine within a living cell when the cell's primary systems to do so fail, which was once believed impossible by scientists.
Bozeman, Montana, USA
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Ed Schmidt, Zoe Seaford, Sydney Austad, Martina Serrano Alvarez, Reed Noyd, Colin Miller, Peter Nagy, Sreekala Bajwa
What
A molecular geneticist at Montana State University has discovered a cellular process, the creation of the amino acid cysteine within a living cell when the cell's primary systems to do so fail, which was once believed impossible by scientists.
When
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:09:00 GMT · 2h 17m ago
Where
Bozeman, Montana, USA ·
Why
Cells need a constant supply of cysteine to survive, and researchers found a previously unknown backup system in mammalian cells that takes over when the main systems for cysteine production fail.
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