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How stem cell descendants preserve flexibility while maintaining distinct identities
- April 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Stem cells are the body's ultimate shape-shifters, sustaining tissues by balancing two competing demands: maintaining their own population and generating specialized descendants. In many tissues, some early descendants can revert to a stem cell state through a process known as dedifferentiation. This ability can help replenish the stem cell pool when stem cells are lost.
Originally published at Phys.org