New clue to controlling skin regeneration - as well as skin cancer
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 10:40
in Biology & Nature
How do organs 'know' when to stop growing? The answer could be useful in regenerative medicine, and also in cancer - where these 'stop growing' signals either aren't issued or aren't heeded. Researchers in the Stem Cell Program at Children's Hospital Boston have now found a regulator of gene activity that tells epidermal stem cells when it's time to grow more skin, as well as a 'crowd control' molecule that can sense cell crowding and turn the growth off...