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Dr. Valery Krizhanovsky

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Understanding why cells refuse to die may lead to treatments for age-related disease

New lung cells are continuously created to replace the damaged ones: Lung tissue six weeks after stem cell transplantation (left) and 16 weeks after transplantation (right). Cells that originated in the transplanted stem cells are green, as opposed to the uncolored host lung cells. Photon-2 microscope image

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Transplanted cells made their way to the lungs in mice and began producing healthy tissue

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