By then, Melton's team was one of only a handful in the country working on embryonic stem cells and was making headway in teasing apart the myriad critical steps needed to guide these impressionable cells into becoming insulin-generating cells.
This is from an article in TIME. This is about stem cell research.
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This is from an article in TIME. This is about stem cell research.
What does "tease something apart" mean?
I'd like to know what the underlined phrase means.