Can hearts repair themselves via stem cell-like mechanisms? Sometimes what we scientists all know to be true turns out later on to be wrong and there are clear instances of this in the stem cell field. For example for decades the dogma was that the adult mammalian brain did not have stem cells, but now everyone knows that the adult brain does have stem cells. What we perceive as factual can change over time. Yamanaka disproved the entrenched notion that differentiated cells were permanently locked into …Read More
Knoepfler lab stem cell blog
