Sniffing out stem cell fates in the nose
Friday, May 12, 2017 - 15:32
in Biology & Nature
Single-cell RNA sequencing has allowed researchers to identify adult stem cells as they transform into mature cells, but the process becomes complicated when stem cells can transform into several different types of cells. Neuroscientists teamed with statisticians and computer scientists to improve the analysis of their experimental results, and were able to track stem cell fates in the nose as olfactory stem cells differentiated into sensory neurons and support cells.