Daily Archives: May 21, 2018

Turkey model for flexor tendon research – can it replace the canine model?

Battlefield hand injuries accounted for 20 to 30% of combat wounds during Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which, soft tissue injuries compromised the majority in hand trauma. Flexor tendon injuries are among the most severe of hand injuries,

Codon usage bias study in cyanobacteria

Codon is a series of three nucleotides (a triplet) that encodes a specific amino acid residue in a polypeptide chain. There are 61 codons encoding different amino acids and 3 stop codons but only 20 different amino acids