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2 stories tagged "stem-cells"
Metabolic & Weight
A Brown-Fat Gene Turns Out to Be the Dial Between a Heart Cell Dividing and Growing Up
Turn PRDM16 down and lab-grown heart cells start dividing again but stay weak. Turn it up and they mature but quit the cell cycle. It's the same gene that decides whether a cell becomes calorie-burning brown fat.
Brain & AgingA Michigan Lab Grew a Living Skull Joint That Wouldn't Fuse. In Mice, It Held.
Craniosynostosis surgery reopens a fused infant skull; in some of the hardest cases it fuses right back and the child goes under the knife again. A triphasic scaffold kept the joint open in mice.