Epigenetics, Genetics

Scientists map epigenome of human stem cells (BioTechniques)

02/05/2010

Natalie Goode

DNA methylation causes precise subunits of DNA to be chemically changed, which directs which areas of the genome are active and which ones are inactive. This process is critical to embryonic cells transformation from pluripotent stem cells to differentiated ones.

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