Study Links Food Preservative to Newly Detected Histone Modification

Aug 28, 2018

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers from the University of Chicago, University of Hong Kong, and University of Georgia have identified a histone modification that can be introduced by the common food preservative sodium benzoate.

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