By Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – SciTech Daily
Scientists have developed a method to identify aging muscle stem cells.
The issue of aging and the fight against it has long been prevalent in both classic and contemporary literature throughout human history. From the ill-fated Qin Shi Huang’s expedition to the sea in pursuit of eternal life to the fame of Count Dracula in the West, aging has caught the world’s fascination for thousands of years and remains unsolved.
In an exciting breakthrough, a research team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) led by Professor Tom Cheung, an associate professor of life sciences, has developed a way to identify aged muscle stem cells (MuSCs) based on their chromatin signature. MuSCs play an important role in muscle repair.
