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By Tom Ulrich
Think, for a moment, of a cell as a computer, with its genome as its software, working to give cells particular functions. One set of genetic programs turns a cell into a heart cell, another set creates a neuron, still another a lymphocyte and so on.
The job of controlling which programs get booted up, and when, falls in part to transcription factors—genes that act like molecular switches to turn other genes on and off.
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