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by Blueskytech 1732 days ago
This quote seems real interesting: “ Romesberg thinks that these findings could raise questions about modifications of bacterial DNA that were thought to be epigenetic — that is, changes made to nucleotides after the DNA was synthesized, usually to influence gene expression. The Z substitution, he said, “shows that things that you might have thought were epigenetic might not be.””