In just a few weeks a completely new organism develops from a fertilized egg cell. The real miracle is that a bunch of identical stem cells turns into completely different, specialized cell types. A team has now been able to show that the specialization of individual cells during embryonic development is not, as previously assumed, exclusively left to chance but is rather determined by cell communication.
from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211108130842.htm
from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211108130842.htm
Stem cells do not (only) play dice
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