Adult Stem Cells from Whiskers

Well, I was tempted to do another tasteless title about adult stem cells and dandruff. I refrain.

Still it is interesting where on the body these adult stem cells are hiding and probably doing adult stuff until they get lured out by these excellent researchers.

This time stem cells from mouse whiskers, that can be used to grow tissue and smooth muscle cells, neurons and other nerve cells. [via The Register]

Update: While composing this post linstrum1 has posted about it already on the Future Salon Yahoo Group