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Cracking Epigenetic Inheritance: Biologists discovered the Secrets of How Gene Traits are passed on

 The evicted histone hexamer and its chaperons from the replisome structure. (A-B) The architecture of the parental histone hexamer. (C-D) The histone-chaperone complex on the replisome. (E-F) The structure of an intact nucleosome. Modified from Li et al, Nature (2004)

A research team led by Professor Yuanliang ZHAI at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) collaborating with Professor Ning GAO and Professor Qing LI from Peking University (PKU), as well as Professor Bik-Kwoon TYE from Cornell University, has recently made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the DNA copying machine helps pass on epigenetic information to maintain gene traits at each cell division...

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