During development, a fertilized egg divides many, many times to create the cells that will form the adult animal. To create different cell types, e.g. neurons and muscle cells, each cell expresses different combinations of…
The Blumberg lab has recently published two papers in Endocrinology and Nature Communications:
In Shoucri et al, 2017 (Endocrinology 158:3109-3125) they found that the obesogen tributyltin (TBT) commits stem cells to become fat cells in part…