Scientists explore how females shut off their second X chromosome
Friday, February 7, 2020 - 07:10
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and Institut Curie in Paris have shown that the protein SPEN plays a crucial role in the process of X-chromosome inactivation, whereby female mammalian embryos silence gene expression on one of their two X chromosomes.