Advance Helps Explain Stem Cell Behavior, ScienceDaily Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: Biochemists at Oregon State University have developed a new method to identify the "DNA-binding transcription factors" that help steer stem cells into forming the wide variety of cells that ultimately make up all the organs and parts of a living vertebrate animal. (...) The research is an important step towards understanding stem cell behavior, how cellular development is controlled, and how a single cell -- which has the genetic code within it to become any cell in the body -- is told what to become, where to go, and what metabolic function to perform. (...)