How Gene Networks Work to Create Patterns (VIDEO)

Center for Genomic Regulation

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Researchers at the CRG try to understand how networks of genes work together to create specific patterns like stripes.

They have gone beyond studying individual networks and have created computational and synthetic mechanisms for a whole "design space" of networks in the bacteria Escherichia coli.

The system proves to be more efficient and powerful than building networks one-by-one, and its results have been published in the journal Nature Communications.

Read more at: http://www.crg.eu/en/news/new-study-how-engineer-synthetic-gene-networks-recreates-stripe-patterns-found-animals-using-bacteria

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