Just like cars, developmental genes have more than one way to stop
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 23:30
in Biology & Nature
There's more than one way to silence gene activity, according to one researcher. Downregulating activity is how healthy genes should shift out of their development cycle. New results explain 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.