Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Sox17 required for transformation of embryonic stem cell to heart muscle cell

Source: Baylor College of Medicine
Date: February 27, 2007

Summary:

An important choreographer of the complicated dance of signals, enzymes and proteins that takes embryonic stem cells through the steps to becoming a beating heart muscle cell is the gene Sox17, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.