Researchers discover a protein that may allow already-differentiated somatic cells to become stem cells
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Because of their ability to differentiate into any cell type, stem cells have been thought to play an important role in limb regeneration processes. But new research has found that in zebrafishes that have lost their fins, the regrowing of the lim
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