Scientists have discovered how two proteins called BERT and ERNI interact in embryos to control when different organ systems start to form. Apparently BERT binds to ERNI to unblock the transcription factor Sox2. Seriously.
The paper is over at PLoS Biology.
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Ba-ZIIING!
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We should start a movement to get Sox2 renamed to Argyle Sox.
Win.
using this picture to help carve pumpkins. thanks for posting the pic.
wow, i too am using this for a pumpkin except my pumpkin is putting bert in a precarious position in front of ernie. haha dropping the soap position