Jarid2 may break the Polycomb silence
Monday, April 30, 2012 - 16:00
in Biology & Nature
Historically, fly and human Polycomb proteins were considered textbook exemplars of transcriptional repressors, or proteins that silence the process by which DNA gives rise to new proteins. Now, work by a team of researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research challenges that dogma.
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