Researchers discover a way that animals keep their cells identical

Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 10:01 in Biology & Nature

Cancers arise in skin, muscle, liver or other types of tissue when one cell becomes different from its neighbors. Although biologists have learned a lot about how tissues form during development, very little is known about how two cells of the same tissue stay identical for an animal's entire lifetime.

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