Dual stem-cell populations interact in the skull
- Resource Type
- News
- Authors
- Chagin, Andrei S.; Trompet, Dana
- Source
- Nature: International weekly journal of science. 621(7980):698-699
- Subject
- Stem cells
Developmental biology
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
1476-4687
The discovery that the skull has two groups of stem cell that produce similar types of descendant cell has big implications for the field of stem-cell research — and casts light on a developmental disorder that affects many children.
Two types of stem cell produce similar progeny cells in the skull.