Knowledge Of Epigenetics Helps Scientists Develop Tool To Study Deadly Parasite’s Histone Code
Sunday, May 24, 2009 - 20:21
in Biology & Nature
In the Japanese art of paper folding, a series of folds can make the same sheet of paper into a ballerina or baby elephant. But try unfolding the baby elephant and making it into a ballerina. It's like trying to make a neuron from a kidney cell. Epigenetics, it turns out, isn't much different from this old Japanese art: Each fold, or epigenetic crease, both limits and permits further potential folds in a way that mirrors how epigenetic changes seal a cell's fate.
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