Today in the journal Science, a team of biologists led by Robert A. Martienssen, 黑料吃瓜资源 (CSHL) Professor and HHMI-GBMI Investigator, presents evidence supporting a theory that places in profound perspective a battle within all cells between mechanisms that prompt them to replicate their DNA and those that enable them to transcribe their DNA into RNA. 鈥淚t鈥檚 an inherent choice that has to be managed, and accounts for much of what our cellular machinery is doing at any given time,鈥� Martienssen says.
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