Testes Stem Cells Can Change Into Other Body Tissues
Date: 7.1.2009
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and at UC-San Francisco have succeeded in isolating **stem cells from human testes**. The cells bear a striking resemblance to embryonic stem cells — they can differentiate into each of the three main types of tissues of the body — but the researchers caution against viewing them as one and the same.
According to the study, the testes stem cells have different patterns of **gene expression and regulation** and they do not proliferate and differentiate as aggressively as human embryonic stem cells.
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