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Study reveals how two sex chromosomes communicate during female embryo development – Phys.org
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have solved a mystery that has long puzzled scientists: How do the bodies of female humans and all other mammals decide which of the two X chromosomes it carries in each cell should be active and which one s…
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have solved a mystery that has long puzzled scientists: How do the bodies of female humans and all other mammals decide which of the two X chromosomes it carries in each cell should be active and which one should be silent?
In a breakthrough study published in Nature Cell Biology, the MGH team discovered the role of a critical enzyme in the phenomenon known as X chromosome inactivation (XCI), which is essential for normal female development an…
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