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Published on: 7/3/2006
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Dr Tomo Tanaka, Professor Julian Blow and their team member Dr Etsushi Kitamura at the University's School of Life Sciences, discovered that, contrary to conventional views, the machinery that copies DNA stays fixed inside the cell whilst the DNA being copied has to move.
DNA is a string-like material found in our cells, which encodes all our genetic information.For the genetic information to be properly inherited, a cell must copy its DNA using a specialized copying machine before it can divide into two daughter cells.It was originally thought that the DNA copying machine moves along the DNA as it is copied.
Dr Tomo Tanaka says "We can liken the process that we have discovered in cells to an assembly line for making cars, invented by Henry Ford and his engineers.
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Dr Tomo Tanaka and Professor Julian Blow are Principal Investigators in the Division of Gene Regulation and Expression in School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee.
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For further information please contact Dr Tanaka via E-mail t.tanaka@lifesci.dundee.ac.uk or TEL 01382 385814.