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Reports from Stowers Institute for Medical Research describe recent advances in gene therapy

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, September 25th, 2008

Investigators publish new data in the report 'A flexible template boundary element in the RNA subunit of fission yeast telomerase.' "Telomerase adds telomeric repeat sequences to chromosome ends using a short region of its RNA subunit as a template. Telomerase RNA subunits are phylogenetically highly divergent, and different strategies have evolved to demarcate the boundary of the template region," researchers in the United States report.

"The recent identification of the gene encoding telomerase RNA in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe (ter1+) has opened the door for structure-function analyses in a model that shares many features with the telomere...

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