The chromatin environment shapes replication origin organization and defines origin classes
Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
The source of any life involves the duplication (or replication) of DNA, a mechanism that is essential to cell division. A team of biologists has recently performed the most exhaustive analysis to date of thousands of sites (called origins) where this replication of the genome is initiated in multicellular organisms.