Geneticists Pump The Brakes On DNA, Revealing Key Developmental Process

ENN
Mar 9, 2020, 2:39 pm183 pts
Led by graduate student Shannon Keenan, the team used light to activate chemical signals in developing fruit flies and traced the effects on a protein called Capicua, or Cic. Located in a cell's nucleus, Cic binds to DNA and performs the specialized task of silencing genes.

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