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March 01, 2001
HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
Cell development is reversed
After years of setbacks, Mark Keating has taken a giant step toward understanding the potential for regrowth of limbs and organs. He and his colleagues have managed to manipulate fully developed mouse muscle cells to the point where they revert to stem cells, uncommitted cells capable of growing into any type of cell.
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Searching for the key to renewal
HMS professor of cell biology Mark Keating studies the regenerative ability of zebrafish and other animals. His dicoveries may someday lead to the possibility of regenerating limbs, organs and brain cells in humans.
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