According to Japanese folklore, 7th of July is the only day of the year when the two stars, Altair and Vega – Hikoboshi and Orihime, can meet at the Milky way. Similarly, in our genome, enhancers “meet” promoters at the necessary times to regulate the expression of genes…

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A research team led by Dr. Yasuhiro Murakawa has published the research article in Science.

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Oguchi, A., Suzuki, A., Komatsu, S., Yoshitomi, H., Bhagat, S., Son, R., Bonnal, R. J. Pierre, Kojima, S., Koido, M., Takeuchi, K., Myouzen, K., Inoue, G., Hirai, T., Sano, H., Takegami, Y., Kanemaru, A., Yamaguchi, I., Ishikawa, Y., Tanaka, N., … Murakawa, Y. (2024). An Atlas of Transcribed Enhancers across Helper T Cell Diversity for Decoding Human Diseases. Science. 10.1126/science.add8394