Hair follicle (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

Hair follicle

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When researchers knocked out the RXRa receptor in a hair follicle, stem cells (green) were unable to engulf dying cells and debris (orange), leading to a buildup of waste that even the professional phagocytes (purple) were unable to fully remove.

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Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University

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