Artist's Illustration of An X-Chromosome (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Artist's Illustration of An X-Chromosome

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This is an artist's illustration of an X-chromosome. Caltech scientists developed a "molecular microscope" to study a new class of RNA gene and uncovered how an RNA can orchestrate the silencing of all genes across an entire chromosome.

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Lance Hayashida/Caltech Office of Strategic Communications

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