Paligenosis (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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There are certain conditions under which mature cells in the body can revert back to behaving like rapidly dividing stem cells. And researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that the process by which they do that seems to be universal, no matter what the organ. In some situations, that process may lead to cancer.

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