Cell paper asks: could productive human transcription factors exist that never evolved?
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-08-20
Roth Lab poses the question: the human genome contains 1600 transcription factors, but could there be productive human transcription factors that never evolved? Graduate student Oliver Takacsi-Nagy, together with the Satpathology Lab, set out to find out, publishing the results in Cell.
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