New study suggests stem cells sabotage their own DNA to produce new tissues
Monday, February 15, 2010 - 22:42
in Biology & Nature
A new study from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa suggests that stem cells intentionally break their own DNA as a way of regulating tissue development. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), could dramatically change how researchers think about tissue development, stem cells and cancer.