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Dr. Rita Perlingeiro, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Caption: Dr. Rita Perlingeiro (left), assistant professor in the Center for Developmental Biology and of molecular biology, led a research team including Drs. Enzi Jiang and Darko Bosnakovski that discovered the molecule SSEA-4 on the surface of certain stem cells in bone marrow that give rise to fat, cartilage and bone.

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