Atlas of an organism: Gene expression in developing mouse embryo
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 17:32
in Biology & Nature
While every cell of an organism contains the same genes only a proportion are expressed in any tissue at a given stage in development. Knowing the extent of gene transcription is valuable and a team of European researchers has generated an atlas of gene expression for the developing mouse embryo. This will be a powerful resource to determine co-expression of genes and to identify functional associations between genes relevant to development and disease.