Monday, March 2, 2009

From One Genome, Many Types of Cells. But How?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/science/24chromatin.html
Published: February 23, 2009

One of the enduring mysteries of biology is that a variety of specialized cells collaborate in building a body, yet all have an identical genome. Somehow each of the 200 different kinds of cells in the human body — in the brain, liver, bone, heart and many other structures — must be reading off a different set of the hereditary instructions written into the DNA.

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