Keeping chromosomes from cuddling up

Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 14:42 in Biology & Nature

If chromosomes snuggle up too closely at the wrong times, the results can be genetic disaster. Now researchers have found the molecular machines in fruit flies that yank chromosomes, the DNA-carrying structures, apart when necessary.

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