{"id":178363,"date":"2023-12-15T11:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/researchers-define-new-class-of-regulatory-element-in-dna"},"modified":"2023-12-15T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:22:30","slug":"researchers-define-new-class-of-regulatory-element-in-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/researchers-define-new-class-of-regulatory-element-in-dna","title":{"rendered":"Researchers define new class of regulatory element in DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-define-new-class-of-regulatory-element-in-dna.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine\u2019s Laboratory of Gene Regulation, led by Professor Doug Higgs and Dr. Mira Kassouf, have published a study in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(23)01316-8\">Cell<\/a>, in which they reveal another piece of the puzzle of how the code in our DNA is read.<\/p>\n<p>In this study, the authors introduce the concept of \u201cfacilitators,\u201d a newly identified type of non-coding DNA that can help to drive gene expression.<\/p>\n<p>All of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a> in your body contain the same DNA. However, these cells are able to develop into over 200 different types and make up a variety of different specialized tissues such as the skin, the blood, and the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine\u2019s Laboratory of Gene Regulation, led by Professor Doug Higgs and Dr. Mira Kassouf, have published a study in the journal Cell, in which they reveal another piece of the puzzle of how the code in our DNA is read. In this study, the authors introduce the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}