How stem cell descendants preserve flexibility while maintaining distinct identities
Lillian Eden
Stem cells are the body’s ultimate shape-shifters, sustaining tissues by balancing two competing demands: maintaining their own population and generating specialized descendants. In many tissues, some early descendants can revert to a stem cell state through a process known as dedifferentiation. This ability can help replenish the stem cell pool when stem cells are lost. In […] The post How stem cell descendants preserve flexibility while maintaining distinct identities appeared first on MIT Dep