Fruit-fly study adds weight to theories about another type of adult stem cell
Friday, August 1, 2008 - 11:49
in Biology & Nature
It turns out that an old dog - or at least an old fruit-fly cell - can learn new tricks. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that mature, specialised cells naturally regress to serve as a kind of de facto stem cell during the fruit-fly life cycle...
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