'Rejuvenation factor' Zscan4 is expressed in response to telomere shortening
Thursday, March 17, 2016 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan, have discovered that Zscan4, a protein believed to be involved in the development of pluripotency in stem cells, is actually a repair mechanism triggered by the shortening of telomeres that takes place during cell division.