Main Category: Genetics
Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology; Diabetes; Arthritis / Rheumatology
Article Date: 28 Feb 2011 – 0:00 PST
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Healthcare Prof:There’s more than one way to silence gene activity, according to a Michigan State University researcher.
Downregulating activity is how healthy genes should shift out of their development cycle. The results, published in Current Biology, discuss how specific repressor proteins – which researchers have named Hairy and Knirps – slow genes during development and how the process is comparable to slowing down a car, says molecular biologist David Arnosti.