Color-Coded Cells Reveal Patchwork Pattern of X Chromosome Silencing in Female Brains

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 13:00 in Biology & Nature

Producing brightly speckled red and green snapshots of many different tissues, Johns Hopkins researchers have color-coded cells in female mice to display which of their two X chromosomes has been made inactive, or "silenced."

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