How embryonic stem cells develop into tissue-specific cells demonstrated
Date: 16.5.2008
While it has long been known that **embryonic stem cells** have the ability to **develop into** any kind of **tissue-specific cells**, the exact mechanism as to how this occurs has heretofore not been demonstrated.
Now, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and elsewhere have succeeded in **graphically revealing this process**, resolving a long-standing question as to whether the stem cells achieve their development through selective activation or selective repression of genes.
"EurekAlert!":[ http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/thuo-hes051208.php]
