In a study led by the University of Tokyo and published earlier this month in the journal Nature Cell Biology, researchers ...
In a discovery that ties the biology of aging to cancer risk, scientists from the University of Tokyo have found that the ...
Throughout life, our cells are constantly exposed to environmental and internal factors that can damage DNA. While such DNA ...
A study suggests hair turns gray when pigment stem cells get stuck and can’t become new color-making cells. A new idea could ...
Your silver strands might be doing more than showing your age, according to a new study out of the University of Tokyo.
How do adult stem cells protect themselves from accumulating genetic mutations that can lead to cancer? For more than three decades, many scientists have argued that the "immortal strand hypothesis" - ...
Most mutational changes in DNA are thought to result from replication errors during cell division. It has therefore been proposed that one way in which stem cells avoid accumulating mutations could ...
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