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.
We want to gain comprehensive
mechanistic insight into the division of human mitotic cells, provide a biophysical basis to understand nuclear organisation, and establish methods for systems analysis of the
first mitotic divisions of mammalian embryos.