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Researchers solve longstanding mystery about peculiar hybrid structures found in bacteria – News-Medical.net
Peculiar hybrid structures called retrons that are half RNA, half single-strand DNA are found in many species of bacteria.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 5 2020
Peculiar hybrid structures called retrons that are half RNA, half single-strand DNA are found in many species of bacteria. Since their discovery around 35 years ago, researchers have learned how to use retrons for producing single strands of DNA in the lab, but no one knew what their function was in the bacteria, despite much research into the matter.
In a paper published today in Cell, a Weizmann Institute of Science team reports on solving the longstanding…
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