Loop the loop, DNA style: One- or two-way transcription depends on gene loops

Friday, September 28, 2012 - 19:50 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have discovered that, by forming or undoing gene loops, cells manipulate the path of the transcription machinery – which reads out instructions from DNA – controlling whether it moves along the genetic material in one direction or two.

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