Undergraduate Biology Journal Club

This week, we're looking at a paper that attempts to explain the observation that cells in the same environment behave differently even if they're genetically identical. This variability is attributed to noisy mRNA transcription (transcriptional bursting). In this study, Fujita et al. design an in vitro system to show that this transcriptional bursting is caused by an interplay between RNA polymerase and DNA.

Interested in CRISPR and Neuroscience? Come to the meeting this week to learn a high throughput method of endogenously labeling mammalian proteins in the brain!