Source: Medical College of Georgia
Date: February 2, 2007
Summary:
A little-known lipid plays a big role in helping us grow from a hollow sphere of stem cells into human beings, researchers have found. They found that in the first few days of life, ceramide helps stem cells line up to form the primitive ectoderm from which embryonic tissues develop, says Dr. Erhard Bieberich, biochemist at the Medical College of Georgia.
