Researchers have been solving long-standing riddles about strange hybrid structures in… – AlKhaleej Today

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.5. November 2020Strange hybrid structures, so-called retrons, which consist of half RNA and half single-stranded DNA, can be found in many types of bacteria. Since their discovery about 35 years ago, researchers have learned how to use retrons to make individual strands of DNA in the laboratory, but despite extensive research, no one knew what their function was in bacteria.
In an article published today in cellA team from the Weizmann Institute of Science reports…

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