Protein is key to embryonic stem cell differentiation
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 17:42
in Biology & Nature
Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have learned that a protein called Shp2 plays a critical role in the pathways that control decisions for differentiation or self-renewal in both human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs).