Source: Stanford University School of Medicine
Date: December 15, 2010
Summary;
More than 2,000 genetic regions involved in early human development have been identified by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The regions, called enhancers, are responsible for triggering the expression of distant genes when embryonic stem cells begin to divide to form the many tissues of a growing embryo. The research is published online Dec. 15 in Nature.
