Long-sought protein structure may help reveal how 'gene switch' works
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 09:57
in Biology & Nature
The bacterium behind one of mankind's deadliest scourges, tuberculosis, is helping researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) move closer to answering the decades-old question of what controls the switching on and off of genes that carry out all of life's functions.