The Scientist : How ubiquitin silences genes [8/11/2004]

Email: Cathy Holding - cathyholding@absw.org.uk
News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20041108-03

8 November 2004

A novel mechanism of gene silencing that plays an unexpected role in inactivating the X chromosome is published in Developmental Cell this week. But the paper by Neil Brockdorff's group in London appears several weeks after an almost identical report from Yi Zhang and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Nature.

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