Honey bees: Genetic labeling decides about blue blood
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
Queen bees and worker bees share the same genome, but they are different in the chemical labeling of about 550 genes. This has been discovered by scientists of the German Cancer Research Center jointly with colleagues in Australia. The researchers tried to understand how development can be so different in organisms with identical sequence of genetic material. After all, healthy cells and cancer cells also share the same genome, but they develop diverging properties.