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Ana Losada

Molecular biologist who heads the Chromosome Dynamics Group at CNIO in Madrid and works on cohesin and chromosome structure; she identified cohesin in vertebrates in the late 1990s.

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Cohesin reorganizes newly copied DNA where replication stalls

A Nature paper from the University of Zurich and the CNIO reports that cohesin is pulled to sites where DNA replication is disrupted, holds the new copy in a protective arrangement, and keeps the error-prone restart factor Primpol switched off.

Publishers:phys.org

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