Which type of cell to become: Decision through indecision
Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 14:02
in Psychology & Sociology
From the moment of fertilization, building a human body involves a series of choices where cells generated by cell division must elect which of the myriad types of cell they will become. How does this decision occur? New research suggests that fate decision is not a unique programmed event, as was believed, but the outcome of a very dynamic process.