Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Hans Clevers, Cancer Genomics Centre (CGC) researcher and director of the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, is co-author of a review in Science proposing a new model for the regulation of mature stem cells. This model explains how the existence side by side of two different stem cell populations (an active and inactive) regulates the maintenance of stem cells while supporting fast tissue regeneration at the same time. Hans Clevers was the first to report on the existence of active stem cells in the intestine.