UCLA researchers examine human embryonic stem cell genome

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Wed, 03/26/2008 - 23:00

Stem cell researchers from UCLA used a high resolution technique to examine the genome, or total DNA content, of a pair of human embryonic stem cell lines and found that while both lines could form neurons, the lines had differences in the numbers of certain genes that could control such things as individual traits and disease susceptibility.


 

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