Two hearts (IMAGE)
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New research published in Developmental Cell from Emma Farley’s lab at UC San Diego has described the ability to predict which changes within enhancers, switches that control when and where our genes are expressed, lead to changes in organisms. The image depicts the way the researchers made just a single-letter change to an enhancer in sea squirts causing the organism to develop two hearts (highlighted in red).
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Alexis Bantle and Granton Jindal, Farley Lab, UC San Diego
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