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The genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, was submitted to a National Institutes of Health database two weeks before its release by the Chinese government, according to ...

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Researchers at IBM and Moderna have successfully used a quantum simulation algorithm to predict the complex secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA sequence, the longest ever ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Nucleotide Sequence of a Nucleic Acid” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 214 No. 2 (February 1966), p. 30 ...