Epigenetic control of cardiogenesis: Non-coding RNA is essential for normal embryonic cardiogenesis
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
Many different tissues and organs form from pluripotent stem cells during embryonic development. To date it had been known that these processes are controlled by transcription factors for specific tissues. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, in collaboration with colleagues at MIT and the Broad Institute in Boston, have now been able to demonstrate that RNA molecules, which do not act as templates for protein synthesis, participate in these processes as well.