The ancient Japanese art of origami is based on the idea that nearly any design - a crane, an insect, a samurai warrior - can be made by taking the same blank sheet of paper and folding it in different ways. The human body faces a similar problem. The genome inside every cell of the body is identical, but the body needs each cell to be different - an immune cell fights off infection; a cone cell helps the eye detect light; the heart's myocytes must beat endlessly. ...Friday 12 December 2014
Scientists Map the Human Loop-ome, Revealing a New Form of Genetic Regulation
The ancient Japanese art of origami is based on the idea that nearly any design - a crane, an insect, a samurai warrior - can be made by taking the same blank sheet of paper and folding it in different ways. The human body faces a similar problem. The genome inside every cell of the body is identical, but the body needs each cell to be different - an immune cell fights off infection; a cone cell helps the eye detect light; the heart's myocytes must beat endlessly. ...
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