«An important open question is whether these retrotransposons are real drivers of developmental decision making,» said Todd MacFanlan, a co-author of the current study and a researcher at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland. (sciencedaily.com)
Specifically, we investigate the molecular events regulating developmental decisions that instruct cardiac progenitor cells to adopt a cardiac cell fate and subsequently fashion a functioning heart. (gladstone.org)