Pluripotent and Differentiated Human Cells Reside in Decidedly Different Epigenomic Landscapes

Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 14:22 in Biology & Nature

Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) possess remarkable properties of self-renewal and pluripotency, the ability to become almost any kind of cell within the body. And yet they share the same genome or set of genes with lineage-committed cells, cells fated to be or do one thing.

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