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Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Caption: University of Illinois crop sciences and Institute for Genomic Biology professor Gustavo Caetano-Anollés led a study that used molecular analyses to determine the evolutionary histories of the proteins and RNAs that make up the ribosome.

Credit: L. Brian Stauffer

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