The new understanding of retrons’ natural function could boost efforts to put them to work, according to an article published in ScienceMag.
Retrons and their efficiency
Defends bacteria
Last week in Cell, one team described how a specific retron defends bacteria, triggering newly infected cells to self-destruct so the virus can’t replicate and spread to others. The Cell paper “is the first to concretely determine a natural function for retrons,” says Anna Simon, a synthetic biologist at Strand...
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