Tracing Unique Cells With Mathematics

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 22:40 in Biology & Nature

This news release is available in German. Each cell in our body is unique. Even cells of the same tissue type that look identical under the microscope differ slightly from each other. To understand how a heart cell can develop from a stem cell, why one beta-cell produces insulin and the other does not, or why a normal tissue cell suddenly mutates to a cancer cell, scientists have been targeting the activities of ribonucleic acid, RNA. read more

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