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Nature Cell Biology 9, 731 - 733 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ncb0707-731

p63: revving up epithelial stem-cell potential

Cédric Blanpain1 & Elaine Fuchs2

  1. Cédric Blanpain is in the Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRIBHM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, 808, route de Lennik, BatC, 1070 Bruxelles, Belgium. e-mail: Cedric.Blanpain@ulb.ac.be
  2. Elaine Fuchs is in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue Box 300, New York, NY 10021, USA. e-mail: fuchslb@rockefeller.edu


As legends go, when Alexander the Great crossed the Land of Darkness searching for the elixir of life, he encountered only desert. Thousands of years later, is it too optimistic to think that scientists have finally found the secret to a longer life? A recent study suggests that p63 may be key, at least for many epithelial stem cells.

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