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A research team from the School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in ...

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HKUMed used the ancient choanoflagellate SOX protein to create stem cells and implanted them into mice, successfully contributing to healthy mice. The ...

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Prof. Si Longlong's team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences constructed a ...