Honeybee protein keeps stem cells youthful

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 10:10 in Biology & Nature

An active protein component of royal jelly helps honeybees create new queens. Stanford researchers have identified a similar protein in mammals, which keeps cultured embryonic stem cells pluripotent. A mammalian protein similar in structure to the active component of honeybee royal jelly — the queen-making goop that helps worker bees raise a new egg-laying diva […]

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