transcriptional
Americanadjective
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The team identified three transcriptional regulators essential for maintaining memories: Camta1 and Tcf4 in the thalamus, and Ash1l in the anterior cingulate cortex.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
TPRX2 is thought to be inactive as a pseudogene, as an essential transcriptional activator in these initial phases of development.
From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2024
Losick has identified a protein that helps control polyploidy in fruit flies: the fly equivalent of a mammalian molecule called YAP1, for yes1 associated transcriptional regulator.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023
And they found that the top 5 percent of genes with the longest transcripts included ones linked with longevity, such as neuronal activity and transcriptional regulation.
From Scientific American • Jan. 6, 2023
Such testimony, supported by all later manuscripts, together with the Bohairic and Syriac versions, cannot but overpower the transcriptional blunder of some early scribe, who cannot, however, have lived later than the second century.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
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