All tied up: Tethered protein provides long-sought answer
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 11:56
in Biology & Nature
HOUSTON -- (Sept. 22, 2009) -- The tools of biochemistry have finally caught up with lactose repressor protein. Biologists from Rice University in Houston and the University of Florence in Italy this week published new results about "lac repressor," which was the first known genetic regulatory protein when discovered in 1966.