Stem cells 'by default'

In spite of considerable research efforts around the world, we still do not know the determining factors that confer stem cells their main particular features: capacity to self-renew and to divide and proliferate. The scientist Jordi Casanova, head of the "Morphogenesis in Drosophila" lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine and CSIC Research Professor, proposes in an article in the journal Embo Reports that we may be working from an incorrect angle.

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