Uncovering a reversible master switch for development

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) In a paper published in Genes& Development, BWH principal investigator Mitzi Kuroda, PhD, and her team identified a reversible 'master switch' on most developmental genes. The team unearthed this biological insight through studies in the fruit fly -- a powerful model organism for studying how human genes are organized and function.
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