{"id":216806,"date":"2025-06-28T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T22:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-reveal-how-diverse-cell-types-are-produced-in-developing-embryos"},"modified":"2025-06-28T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T22:05:01","slug":"scientists-reveal-how-diverse-cell-types-are-produced-in-developing-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-reveal-how-diverse-cell-types-are-produced-in-developing-embryos","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal how diverse cell types are produced in developing embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reveal-how-diverse-cell-types-are-produced-in-developing-embryos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that controls how genes are switched \u201con\u201d and \u201coff\u201d during embryonic development. Their study sheds light on how diverse cell types are produced in developing embryos.<\/p>\n<p>The research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/developmental-cell\/fulltext\/S1534-5807(25)00361-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Developmental Cell<\/i>, was led by Dr. Ir\u00e8ne Amblard and Dr. Vicki Metzis from the Development and Transcriptional Control group, in collaboration with LMS facilities and the Chromatin and Development and Computational Regulatory Genomics groups.<\/p>\n<p>All cells contain the same DNA but must turn <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/specific+genes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">specific genes<\/a> \u2018\u201con\u201d and \u201coff\u201d\u2014a process known as gene expression\u2014to create different body parts. The cells in your eyes and arms harbor the same genes but \u201cexpress\u201d them differently to become each body part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that controls how genes are switched \u201con\u201d and \u201coff\u201d during embryonic development. Their study sheds light on how diverse cell types are produced in developing embryos. The research, published in Developmental Cell, was led by Dr. Ir\u00e8ne [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}