Albert Erives
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Albert Erives is a professor at Dartmouth College
known for the pacRNA model
for the joint origin of the genetic code
and universal homochirality
. He is also known for several findings in developmental biology
and gene regulation.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
known for the pacRNA model
Proto-anticodon RNA
Proto-anti-codon RNAs are auto-aminoacylating ribozymes, which are thought to have evolved from any nucleic acid molecular system that was capable of forming a hairpin followed by an exposed "anti-codon" sequence and an adjacent step-loop acceptor stem...
for the joint origin of the genetic code
Genetic code
The genetic code is the set of rules by which information encoded in genetic material is translated into proteins by living cells....
and universal homochirality
Homochirality
Homochirality is a term used to refer to a group of molecules that possess the same sense of chirality. Molecules involved are not necessarily the same compound, but similar groups are arranged in the same way around a central atom. In biology homochirality is found in the chemical building blocks...
. He is also known for several findings in developmental biology
Developmental biology
Developmental biology is the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop. Modern developmental biology studies the genetic control of cell growth, differentiation and "morphogenesis", which is the process that gives rise to tissues, organs and anatomy.- Related fields of study...
and gene regulation.