Epigenetics: Protein linked to leukemia 'bookmarks' highly active genes during cell division
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 16:21
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have discovered how some epigenetic instructions get stably transferred from one generation of cells to the next. They report that newly formed cells learn which genes need to become highly active right away thanks to a helpful protein that "bookmarks" these genes during the division of their parent cell.