An unexpected phenomenon has been observed in the organs that produce sperm in fruit flies by a team of researchers in their new study. When a certain kind of stem cell is killed off experimentally, another group of non-stem cells can come out of retirement to replace them. The discovery sheds light on the tiny "environments" that stem cells occupy in animal bodies and may help explain how stem cells in tumors replenish themselves, the researchers report in the ...Friday 18 April 2014
Lost Stem Cells can Now be Naturally Replaced by Non-stem Cells
An unexpected phenomenon has been observed in the organs that produce sperm in fruit flies by a team of researchers in their new study. When a certain kind of stem cell is killed off experimentally, another group of non-stem cells can come out of retirement to replace them. The discovery sheds light on the tiny "environments" that stem cells occupy in animal bodies and may help explain how stem cells in tumors replenish themselves, the researchers report in the ...
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