'DNA Is a Bully' That Hustles Transcribers to Targets
Monday, June 12, 2017 - 13:02
in Biology & Nature
"DNA is a bully." That's how researcher Jeffrey Skolnick sums up the dominant power of DNA motion among the forces acting upon transcription factors as they move through DNA's winding thickets to their target sites. He and Edmond Chow have programmed a very large, unique simulation that tests and corroborates the hypothesis.