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Archive Home > 2013 > January > 29 > Leprosy reprograms cells

Leprosy reprograms cells

By ScienceNOW / The Bulletin
January 29, 2013

Leprosy has plagued humans for thousands of years, but that doesn’t mean it has revealed all of its secrets. A new study in mice suggests the disfiguring disease employs a bit of biological trickery to do its damage: It reprograms certain nerve cells to become like stem cells and uses them to....

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