Check out our latest article for Nature News & Views from Edlyn & Nadine!
In this article, we give a preview about the latest molecular players, the OBOX family, important for zygotic genome activation in the mouse embryo.
Thank you to Nature for inviting us to write about the new scientific advances and to highlight the exciting work from the labs of Wei Xie (Tsinghua University, China) and Richard M. Schultz (University of Pennsylvania, USA).
To read more about the work on OBOX:
Ji, S., Chen, F., Stein, P. et al. OBOX regulates murine zygotic genome activation and early development. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06428-3