Simple genetic circuit forms stripes: Synthetic biology helps scientists sort out pattern formation

Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 13:01 in Biology & Nature

Many living things have stripes, but the developmental processes that create these and other patterns are complex and difficult to untangle. Now a team of scientists has designed a simple genetic circuit that creates a striped pattern that they can control by tweaking a single gene.

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