'Housekeeping' Genes Play Important Role In Developmental Pathways Of Cells
Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 00:28
in Biology & Nature
A gene called HPRT plays an important role in setting the program by which primitive or precursor cells decide to become normal nerve cells in the human brain. This unconventional view of metabolic genes known as "housekeeping" genes is now reported in a new study.