Sentences with phrase «epigenetics research programme»

Dr Peter Rugg - Gunn, group leader in the Babraham Institute's Epigenetics research programme and a senior co-author on the paper, explains: «One of the exciting aspects of this study is that we were able to capture naïve stem cells at a very early stage of their reprogramming — these early cells had switched on a subset of naïve - specific genes, but they had not yet fully matured.

Research carried out between the groups of Wolf Reik and Peter Rugg - Gunn in the Epigenetics research programme at the Babraham Institute have investigated the early stages of the development of cells called primordial germ cells and developed strategies to generate these cells in the lab.

As explained by lead researcher, Dr Ferdinand von Meyenn, postdoctoral researcher in the Epigenetics research programme at the Babraham Institute and first author on the paper: «Our method establishes a reliable system that can be used to explore the early stages of epigenetic reprogramming in primordial germ cell - like cells and how this is regulated in the generation of reproductive cells.

Professor Wolf Reik, Head of the Epigenetics research programme, said: «Charting the different developmental timings in the early reprogramming events observed in the human and mouse - derived cells gives the first mechanistic insight into how these events are regulated which is tremendously exciting.