A Snapshot of Stem Cell Expression

October 2, 2015

(Eurekalert) – Researchers on the Wellcome Genome Campus reveal new genes involved in stem cell pluripotency, new subpopulations of cells and new methods to find meaning in the data. Published in Cell Stem Cell, the findings have implications for the study of early development. Stem cells exist in a ‘ground’ state before something triggers them to become develop into functional cells such as liver, heart or blood cells. What sparks that change has a lot to do with how, when and in what order the genes inside that cell are expressed, or turned on and off.