Signaling to muscle satellite cells

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Researchers led by Rita Perlingeiro at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, differentiated mouse embryonic stem cells into muscle progenitor cells which restored function when infused into mice with a mouse version of Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, a wasting disease.

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