Getting to the Heart of Cell Fate Control

Laurie A. Boyer, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at MIT, discusses her work studying cell fate and cardiac regeneration. She shares how her lab is dissecting the gene regulatory mechanisms that control lineage commitment during heart development and congenital heart defects and applying this knowledge toward engineering cardiac tissues. Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 33775]