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Episode 4: The Blueprints of Your Cells

Episode 4: The Blueprints of Your Cells

Update: 2021-09-06
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There are approximately 20,000 genes in the human genome. 20,000 packets that house the blueprints for every human cell. And every human cell contains a complete copy of that genome. It’s an incredible feat of bio-engineering. But here’s the question. If every human cell contains every single human gene, how does the cell know what to do? What process determines whether it becomes a pancreas or a patella? And what happens if that process falters—if the right gene is selected but cast in the wrong role.

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Episode 4: The Blueprints of Your Cells

Episode 4: The Blueprints of Your Cells

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute