A new model of liver regeneration
Fernando Camargo, PhD, and team find Hippo inactivation causes mature liver cells to revert back to stem cell-like state.
Harvard scientists at Boston Children's Hospital have new evidence in mice that it may be possible to repair a chronically diseased liver by forcing mature liver cells to revert back to a stem cell-like state. The results were published in Cell. Read the full story.
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A vaccine for heart attack?
Harvard and Brigham & Women's scientists have developed a "genome editing" approach for permanently reducing cholesterol levels in mice with a single injection, potentially reducing heart attack risk by up to 90 percent. Their work was published in Circulation Research. Read on. |