Single-cell mutagenic responses and cell death revealed in real time [Genetics]

When musing about evolution, the physician and scientific essayist Lewis Thomas wrote, "The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music" (1). Understanding how DNA mutations arise in cells, either spontaneously or...

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