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Transcription factors regulate the expression of genes by binding to certain DNA sequences. But the outcome can be markedly different, depending on whether the binding is stable or short-lived. See Letter p.251

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Figure 1: Well-balanced gene expression.

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  1. Tommy Kaplan is in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA, and at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.,

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  2. Nir Friedman is at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, and at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.,

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Kaplan, T., Friedman, N. Running to stand still. Nature 484, 171–172 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/484171a

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