A new study by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital says that a protein called Tet1 is partly responsible for giving primordial germ cells a clean epigenetic slate before developing into sperm and egg cells. This discovery could help provide clues to the cause of some kinds of neonatal growth defects and may also help advance the development of stem cell models of disease. The findings were reported online Dec. 1 in iNature/i by a research team ...
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