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  • Study tracks evolutionary history of metabolic networks

    Oct 28, 2019 8:45 am by Diana YatesResearch
    professor Gustavo Caetano-Anollés. Image and illustration by Fred Zwicky

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    • professor Gustavo Caetano-Anollés. Image and illustration by Fred Zwicky

    The study shows how metabolic networks – which drive every cellular process from protein building to DNA repair – became less random, more modular and more hierarchical over time.