Seeing the Silencing of the X (IMAGE)

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Seeing the Silencing of the X

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In these mouse embryo cells, XistAR RNA strands show up in red -- and the Xist RNA whose production they trigger show up in green. The team that made this image had to develop a new way to detect antisense lncRNA in order to see XistAR.

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