Jefferson 250, Professor Ben Simons, University of Cambridge, "Tissue Maintenance: A Laboratory for Statistical Physics." Joint Kavli Lecture/Physics Colloquium.
"In adult, tissues are maintained and repaired by stem cells, which divide and differentiate to generate more specialized progeny. The mechanisms that control the balance between proliferation and differentiation promise fundamental insights into the origin and design of multi-cellular organisms. However, stem cells are difficult to distinguish from their more differentiated offspring, and resolving these...
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