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  • 2018-03-16
    Beijing, March 9 (Reporter Ding Jia) The reporter learned from the Chinese Academy of Sciences today that the Beijing Institute of Genomics in the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutes have cooperated to interpret the "programming language" that directs the gene expression of human embryos for the first time in the world. It was published in the high impact journal "Cell" on May 9. Prof. Jiang Liu's team has cooperated with Prof. Zijiang Chen's team from the Reproductive Hospital of Shandong University and Jianqiao Liu's team from Guangzhou Medical University to overcome the problem of lack of research materials and established a research method specific for low number cells. It is the first time in the world to study the activation mechanisms of the human embryonic genome. "There is a very special period of abou...