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November 2020 in “Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology” Certain genes are more active in baby scalp cells and can help grow hair when added to adult mouse skin cells.
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408 citations,
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4 citations,
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1 citations,
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The research identified key molecules that help hair matrix and dermal papilla cells communicate and influence hair growth in cashmere goats.
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Deleting Smad4 and PTEN genes in mice causes rapid, invasive stomach cancer.