Spanish scientists reveal the construction of the highways that transport genetic information in cell division. "With different tricks we have managed to stop time in different stages," says Óscar Llorca.
A virus from 500 million years ago is now key in the formation of the embryo. They expand the atlas of the'switches' that turn the genome on or off. The finding will be key in diseases that may be oncological but also related to developmental disorders, say the researchers.