Glowing and Growing (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

Glowing and Growing

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Researchers made stem cells fluoresce green (at the base of hair follicles above) by labeling their super-enhancers, regions of the genome bound by gene-amplifying proteins. It appears one such protein, Sox9, leads the activation of super-enhancers that boost genes associated with stem cell plasticity.

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Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University/<i>Nature</i>

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