Study shows how bookmarking genes pre-cell division hastens their subsequent reactivation
Sunday, October 9, 2011 - 21:30
in Biology & Nature
By observing and measuring the kinetics of activation of a single gene locus in a cell before it divides and comparing it with the same gene's reactivation in newly formed daughter cells, scientists have discovered how how bookmarking a gene pre-division causes it to get reactivated post-division.
