[Acta Biotheoretica] The scientific restlessness surrounding the question of what life is (expressed in the provocations of Feynman and Schrödinger) guides this review article by integrating physics, chemistry, and biology […]
epigenetics
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Single-celled Organisms Found To Have A More Complex DNA Epigenetic Code Than Multicellular Life
The background: Multicellular organisms (animals, plants, human) all have the ability to methylate the cytosine © base in their DNA. This process, a type of epigenetic modification, plays an important […]
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Multiple Roles Of DNA Methylation In Sea-ice Bacterial Communities And Associated Viruses
Despite growing evidence for the role of DNA methylation in bacterial acclimation to environmental stress, this epigenetic mechanism remains unexplored in sea-ice microbial communities known to tolerate multiple stressors.