Stem cell survival strategy key to blood and immune system health

... study, Emmanuelle PasseguA , PhD, of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF. Autophagy might increase cancer risk , she said, by allowing old stem cells to survive despite having accumulated ...

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