Description

How do cells acquire their specific differentiated identities during animal development? How can cells be provoked to change their identity and undergo different pathways of differentiation? How do complex developmental processes occur with such high fidelity? What is the basis for evolutionary innovation in the regulatory instructions for these processes? Answers to these questions are important to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, mechanisms of cancer biology, and the development of personalized medicines.

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