How Do Spontaneous Mutations Arise in Proliferating Cells? (VIDEO)

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Visualization of mutations in living and growing individual bacterial cells. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 20 June 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.C. Woo at INSERM in Paris, France, and colleagues was titled, "Heterogeneity of spontaneous DNA replication errors in single isogenic Escherichia coli cells."

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[Credit: A. Woo et al., Science Advances 2018]

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