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January 2020 in “Nature” Stress can cause hair to turn gray by depleting stem cells.
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December 2015 in “International Journal of Molecular Sciences” Melanocyte stem cells are crucial for skin pigmentation and have potential in disease modeling and regenerative medicine.
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