Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Analyzing the Circuitry of Stem Cells

Source: New York Times
Date: September 13, 2005

Summary:

Scientists at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., have developed a technique for uncovering the interactions of transcription factors. These are the agents that switch genes on or off in the cell. By figuring out these interactions on a genomewide scale, they have reconstructed the top level of the controls that govern a human embryonic stem cell.