Timing germ cell development
Friday, March 15, 2013 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research identify a novel mechanism in early germ cell development. They show how the chromatin modulator PRC1 coordinates the timing of sexual differentiation of germ cells during embryonic development. The study, which enhances our understanding of the mechanisms regulating stem-ness and cell fate determination, is published in the latest issue of Nature.