Fruit-fly study adds weight to theories about another type of adult stem cell

It turns out that an old dog - or at least an old fruit-fly cell - can learn new tricks. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that mature, specialized cells naturally regress to serve as a kind of de facto stem cell during the fruit-fly life cycle.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news136736309.html">Fruit-fly study adds weight to theories about another type of adult stem cell</a></p> <p>It turns out that an old dog - or at least an old fruit-fly cell - can learn new tricks. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that mature, specialized cells naturally regress to serve as a kind of de facto stem cell during the fruit-fly life cycle.</p>