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Articles by Nicole Haloupek (78 results)
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Nicole Haloupek is a freelance science writer and a recent graduate of UC Berkeley's molecular and cell biology PhD program.
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Action at a distance
While the textbook enhancer is often depicted just upstream of a gene, many enhancers influence transcription from afar—some can activate genes a million base pairs away. Enhancers can even activate genes on a completely separate chromosome (i.e., in trans), a process called transvection. It’s not known how common transvection is, but an article in the…