{"id":16803,"date":"2015-09-01T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T21:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/dna-division-can-slow-to-a-halt"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:28","slug":"dna-division-can-slow-to-a-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/dna-division-can-slow-to-a-halt","title":{"rendered":"DNA Division Can Slow To A Halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-division-can-slow-to-a-halt.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A key mystery of the DNA replication process has been unraveled by researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).<\/p>\n<p>Before a bacterium can divide, it must make a copy of its genetic material, the circular DNA molecules that resemble bunched rubber bands, through a process called DNA replication. In this process, the two strands of DNA making up the circular DNA molecule unwind and separate to become templates for generating new strands.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure the process is well regulated, the bacterium has set a number of \u201croadblocks,\u201d or termination sites on the DNA, to ensure the permanent stoppage of replication forks, Y-shaped structures formed between the strands as the DNA molecule splits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/09\/150901120836.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key mystery of the DNA replication process has been unraveled by researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Before a bacterium can divide, it must make a copy of its genetic material, the circular DNA molecules that resemble bunched rubber bands, through a process called DNA replication. In this process, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69643,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803\/revisions\/69643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}