Sentences with phrase «affect cell fusion»

Researchers then tested cell cultures and mouse models by using a gene editing process called CRISPR - Cas9 to demonstrate how the presence or absence of myomaker and myomerger — both individually and in unison — affect cell fusion and muscle formation.

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Published in the March 31 advance online issue of Cell, their findings reveal that circular RNAs — like their protein counterparts — are also affected by genomic rearrangements in cancer, resulting in abnormal fusions.