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Looking Back and Ahead in the Use of Pluripotent Stem Cells in Medicine

14-Dec-2016

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Therapies that deliver fresh new stem cell populations will take up the work of lost cells, e.g. muscle cells in order to reduce frailty.

Stem cell decline in aging is driven by changes in signaling in tissue.

Replacing stem cell populations will probably be of only limited benefit without other rejuvenation therapies to reduce the burden of damage.

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