Genes Communicate Through Twisting: The Story of Supercoiling in DNA

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Nov 21, 202500:29:41Arts

It is well known that inside nearly every living cell on this planet, there are instructions powering the dynamics of everything in the cell, known as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Enoch Yeung, Associate Professor of Mech...

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