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Caption: A population of fat-derived stem cells expresses the bone-specific COL1A1 gene. Green fluorescence from a “molecular beacon” shows increasing expression from day nine, left, through day 11 and day 14. By day 16, right, expression begins to wane.
Credit: Darling Lab/Brown University
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