DNA replication is a fundamental process essential for bacterial growth and survival. Initiation begins at the chromosomal origin (oriC), where the conserved initiator protein DnaA assembles into an ...

Tessa K.J. Haining ’23 lives in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays. “I note the obvious differences / in the human family,” begins Maya Angelou in her poem, “Human Family.” “Some of ...

A new paper, published today in Science, identifies widespread differences between DNA sequences and their corresponding RNA transcripts in human cells, and demonstrates that these differences result ...