Japanese study uncovers protein that keeps skin youthful

“Damaged or stressed stem cells can be selectively eliminated by intact stem cells every day in our skin,” said research leader Emi Nishimura, a professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University’s Stem Cell Biology department. “Future studies are needed to determine the mechanisms of cell competition in other tissues, and to identify compounds capable of reversing aging in other organs,” they said. She said additional research would investigate whether the same process might also be at work in other parts of the body that have so-called epithelial cells like skin does.

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