• Question: how much reasearch have you done about dna being replicated

    Asked by zzzape3 to timcraggs on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Tim Craggs answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      I have spent the last three years doing research on DNA replication. Before that I was studying proteins and in particular fluorescent proteins and how they work. The work I have done on DNA replication will continue for the next few years, even as I move to a different job. I will be studying in detail one of the enzymes (protein nano machines) that is responsible for making DNA in bacteria. This will be really interesting, and have lots of really helpful applications in DNA sequencing (decoding the human genome), medicine (understanding DNA replication better may help us to diagnose certain diseases better), and in drug design (making drugs that block bacterial DNA replication but do not block human DNA replication).

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