title: Spontaneous mutation: real-time in living cells.
abstract: A new study provides the first direct visualization of DNA replication errors as they become mutations in living cells. After decades of post-hoc inference of mutation rates and mechanisms, a new method opens the possibility of cell-, tissue- and cancer-clone-specific mutation-rate detection and real-time visualization of transient hypermutable states in situ.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. smr@bcm.edu
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004260:DNA Repair; D004261:DNA Replication; D016678:Genome; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics