{"id":140691,"date":"2022-06-16T18:23:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dna-evolves-at-different-rates-depending-on-chromosome-structure"},"modified":"2022-06-16T18:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:23:53","slug":"dna-evolves-at-different-rates-depending-on-chromosome-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dna-evolves-at-different-rates-depending-on-chromosome-structure","title":{"rendered":"DNA evolves at different rates, depending on chromosome structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-evolves-at-different-rates-depending-on-chromosome-structure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The structure of how DNA is stored in archaea makes a significant difference to how quickly it evolves, according to a new study by Indiana University researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by molecular biologist Stephen Bell, Distinguished Professor and chair of the College of Arts and Sciences\u2019 Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at Indiana University (IU) Bloomington, was recently published in <i>Nature Microbiology<\/i>. Its findings have the potential to impact research on the treatment of genetic diseases such as cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most exciting thing we revealed is the idea that the shape of a DNA molecule can affect its ability to change,\u201d Bell said. \u201cIn the early 20th century, modernist architecture had the idea that the form of a building should follow its function. But what we\u2019re seeing in these organisms is that over time, form is actually affecting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/evolution\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">evolution<\/a>. How DNA is structured can change it, creating an evolutionary feedback loop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The structure of how DNA is stored in archaea makes a significant difference to how quickly it evolves, according to a new study by Indiana University researchers. The study, led by molecular biologist Stephen Bell, Distinguished Professor and chair of the College of Arts and Sciences\u2019 Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at Indiana University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}