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Recent Examples on the Web Babonis found that a single transcription factor was enough to stop immature cells from developing as neurons and turn them into stinging cells instead, complete with a barbed, coiled filament for capturing prey. — Quanta Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021 The snapdragon gene in Martin’s tomato, for instance, is known as a transcription factor: essentially, a kind of volume knob that regulates how much of something a particular gene will produce. — New York Times, 20 July 2021 Frazer wanted to know how a heart-specific transcription factor called NKX2-5 influenced those traits. — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 10 Sep. 2020 Semenza discovered a protein complex called hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF), which is composed of two transcription factors—proteins that control the transcription of DNA into RNA—called HIF-1α and ARNT. — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2019 In 1952, well before developmental biologists spoke in terms of Hox genes and transcription factors, or even understood DNA’s structure, Alan Turing had an idea. — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019 Scientists achieve this transformation by bathing the stem cells in a solution containing the right cocktail of transcription factors, molecules that guide fetal development by regulating how genes are turned on or off. — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2019 In 1988, Ueli Schibler, now a professor of molecular biology at the University of Geneva, was studying transcription factors, cellular actors that control the transcription of genes into proteins. — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2015 When Wuarin performed the isolation, the transcription factor had failed to appear. — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2015

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