08 October 2024
Talented Tuft Cells
Tuft cells – tufty with tiny finger-like projections – of the intestinal lining act like stem cells regenerating different cell types after damage. In the lab, they can generate multi-cell type organoids, and unlike other stem cell types, they're resistant to radiation
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Lulu Huang, Jochem H. Bernink and Amir Giladi, and colleagues
- Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Nature, October 2024
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