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GENE REGULATION DYNAMICS

Noisy transcription under the spotlight

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Real-time quantification of transcription initiation by nascent mRNA labelling reveals noisy transcriptional dynamics and a high level of inter-cell variability in transcription of environmental response genes.

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Fig. 1: Single-cell basis of tissue environmental response revealed by RNA labelling.

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