'Housekeeping' genes play important role in developmental pathways of cells
Friday, August 21, 2009 - 10:14
in Biology & Nature
A study from the Centre for Molecular Genetics at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows that a gene called HPRT plays an important role in setting the program by which primitive or precursor cells decide to become normal nerve cells in the human brain. This unconventional view of metabolic genes known as 'housekeeping' genes is now online at the journal Molecular Therapy...