Stanford University School of Medicine Fruit-Fly Study Adds Weight to Theories About Another Type of Adult Stem Cell

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It turns out that an old dog — or at least an old fruit-fly cell — can learn new tricks. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that mature, specialized cells naturally regress to serve as a kind of de facto stem cell during the fruit-fly life cycle.

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