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7.342 | Fall 2017 | Undergraduate

# How To Build An Animal: Cell Fate and Identity in Development and Disease

#### Course Description

In this course, we will explore how animals determine and maintain cell fate. We will discuss changes to DNA structure and packaging, special proteins (known as “master regulators”) with the ability to alter cell fate via transcription, cell-cell signaling, and RNA localization.

This course is one of many …

In this course, we will explore how animals determine and maintain cell fate. We will discuss changes to DNA structure and packaging, special proteins (known as “master regulators”) with the ability to alter cell fate via transcription, cell-cell signaling, and RNA localization.

This course is one of many Advanced Undergraduate Seminars offered by the Biology Department at MIT. These seminars are tailored for students with an interest in using primary research literature to discuss and learn about current biological research in a highly interactive setting. Many instructors of the Advanced Undergraduate Seminars are postdoctoral scientists with a strong interest in teaching.

## Course Info

##### Instructor

- Dr. Laura V Blanton

##### Departments

- Biology

##### Topics

- Health and Medicine
  - Biomedicine
- Science
  - Biology
    - Cell Biology
    - Developmental Biology
    - Stem Cells

##### Learning Resource Types

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Discussed in this course are pluripotent stem cells, which are undifferentiated cells that maintain the capability to give rise to any cell type. These Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) are adult cells that have been genetically reprogrammed to an embryonic stem cell–like state, and the different colors indicate different genetic markers being expressed by the cells. Image by Sabrina Heman-Ackah, niams nih on flickr. License BY-NC-SA.

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