A Mechanism for Change (IMAGE)

Brown University

A Mechanism for Change

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Common yeast cells like these are able to change from the "a" to the "alpha" type by removing a protein that prevents certain genes from being expressed. Understanding that mechanism could lead to new interventions in pathologies where the cell transformation process goes wrong.

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Jeffrey Laney / Brown University

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