Genetic traffic signal orchestrates early embryonic development
Thursday, January 7, 2016 - 12:07
in Biology & Nature
You are the product of metamorphosis. During the third week of your embryonic existence, fateful genetic choices were made that began to transform a tiny ball of identical stem cells into a complex organism of flesh and blood, bone and sinew, brain and heart and gut and lung. But what directed this remarkable developmental choreography?