Latent memory of cells comes to life

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Artistic impression of nucleosomes interaction. Credit: Mette Hst CMOL Niels Bohr Institute University of Copenhagen
Artistic impression of nucleosomes interaction. Credit: Mette Høst, CMOL, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

New Danish research has examined the mechanisms behind latent cell memory, which can come to life and cause previously non-existent capacities suddenly to appear. Special yeast cells for example, can abruptly change from being of a single sex to hermaphrodite.


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