Do human embryos and cancer share the same starting fuse?
Gene activity immediately after fertilisation is used to infer how an embryo forms. Scientists now ask if cancer begins the same way
06-Oct-2022 -
At the moment of fertilisation, the genes in the fertilising sperm and egg are switched off. For a new embryo to develop, they must be switched on – but how?
The answer is unknown, which seems remarkable for such a fundamental event at the beginning of embryonic life, and for decades, it was ...
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