Link between human birth defect syndrome, cancer metastasis explored
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 20:28
in Biology & Nature
Some cells are natural rule-breakers. Neural crest cells for example, not only migrate throughout the body during development (most cells are more selective in their wandering), they are also more developmentally flexible than their predecessors (a no-no for nearly all cell types). Now researchers have shown that a protein that controls DNA accessibility is responsible for the cells' unruly ways.