Gene decoding obeys road traffic rules
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 18:00
in Mathematics & Economics
One of life's most basic processes -- transcription of the genetic code -- resembles road traffic, including traffic jams, accidents and a police force that controls the flow of vehicles. This surprising finding, reported recently by Weizmann Institute researchers in Nature Communications, might facilitate the development of a new generation of drugs for a variety of disorders.