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A gene that keeps intestinal stem cells stable offers insight into how tissues repair themselves

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A gene that keeps intestinal stem cells stable offers insight into how tissues repair themselves
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Years before he conducted the research that would earn him a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, Ph.D., was a postdoctoral scientist at Gladstone Institutes, studying genes. There, he helped discover a gene (now called eIF4G2) that's essential for early embryonic development.

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