https://touchingfish.top/en/tags/isoforms/Recent content in Isoforms on TouchingFish.topHugoenFri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://touchingfish.top/en/2021/alternative-rna-processing/Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://touchingfish.top/en/2021/alternative-rna-processing/<p>I received a livestream notification about the &quot;Yunnan Butterfly Explosion&quot; the moment I got to work. I'd been intrigued ever since seeing it on trending topics earlier — back in college, I followed two professors into the mountains to observe butterflies. One was a species identification expert, the other an entomologist. Both were inspiring mentors I deeply respect.</p> <p>The more I think about butterflies, the more fascinating they become. Caterpillar and butterfly — same genome, yet two radically different lives. The genes are not replaced; the same genetic information is simply &quot;interpreted&quot; differently during metamorphosis. It is as if the same transcript gets spliced under a different scheme, emerging with entirely new form and function. This brings to mind an ancient saying —</p>