banner1

Home arrow Forum arrow Everything Else Open Discussion Counting Cells That Ensure Gene Balance
Main Menu
Home
News
Links
Wiki
Search
Administrator
FAQ
Contact Us
Science Books
Register
Online Store
Science on the Web
Store - beta
Project Fork
Feature Sections
Encyclopedia Astronuc
ID Watch
Community Menu
Forum
Chat Room
Einstein@Home
Member Blogs
CB
CB User List
Login Form
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
December 02, 2008, 10:52:19 PM
Username: Password:
Login with username, password and session length

Password reminder
Newsflash
Everything Science Forum
December 02, 2008, 10:52:19 PM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Pages: [1]   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: Counting Cells That Ensure Gene Balance  (Read 1172 times)
Orstio
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 5854



WWW
« on: February 05, 2006, 07:40:52 AM »

Click here to read the article ...
Quote
Two are one too many – this is the motto used by cells of a female organism: These contain two X chromosomes, one of which always becomes inactivated. How does the cell recognize that it contains two of these sex chromosomes and how does it choose which one to turn off? Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), working together with French colleagues, have now been able to elucidate an early step in this complex process.



[TD bgColor=#336699][FONT color=#ffffff][STRONG][EM]Female embryonic stem cells differentiated for 2 days. Red: X-chromosomes, green: X-inactivation centers (Xics)[/EM][/STRONG][/FONT]
[/TBODY][/TABLE][/P]
[P]Forty-five years ago, British scientist Mary Lyon already described this chromosome i. . .
Pages: [1]   Go Up
  Print  
 
 

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 2.0 Beta 3.1 Public | SMF © 2006–2008, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
Page created in 0.13 seconds with 21 queries.

Valid XHTML 1.0!


Mambo is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.