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  • 1018953122875508476226132542375024PublicAssets/3499Wound healing requires the action of stem cells. In mice that lack the Sept2/ARTS gene, stem cells involved in wound healing live longer and wounds heal faster and more thoroughly than in normal mice. This confocal microscopy image from a mouse lacking the Sept2/ARTS gene shows a tail wound in the process of healing. Cell nuclei are in blue. Red and orange mark hair follicle stem cells (hair follicle stem cells activate to cause hair regrowth, which indicates healing). See more information in the article in <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6143/286.abstract">Science</a>.Hermann Steller, Rockefeller UniversityYaron Fuchs, Samara Brown, and Hermann Steller, Rockefeller UniversityPhotograph

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    Wound healing requires the action of stem cells. In mice that lack the Sept2/ARTS gene, stem cells involved in wound healing live longer and wounds heal faster and more thoroughly than in normal mice. This confocal microscopy image from a mouse lacking the Sept2/ARTS gene shows a tail wound in the process of healing. Cell nuclei are in blue. Red and orange mark hair follicle stem cells (hair follicle stem cells activate to cause hair regrowth, which indicates healing). See more information in the article in Science.

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    Yaron Fuchs, Samara Brown, and Hermann Steller, Rockefeller University

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