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Please hold—the next available exon will be right with you

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A major challenge in gene expression is to understand how precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) processing events are integrated with transcription. A recent study suggests that distant exons in nascent RNA are held together during transcription, promoting accurate splicing independent of intron fate.

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Figure 1: Pre-mRNA continuity in splicing.

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