Researchers at MedUni Vienna's Institute of Medical Genetics discovered two genes (TSC/Tuberin and PRAS40) are extremely important regulators in the development of stem cells. If these genes are switched off, the stem cells will not develop and instead die a programmed cell death. The leader Markus Hengstschager, Director of Institute of Medical Genetics published a journal in Human Molecular Genetics that these stem cells need both proteins to develop and be involved in regeneration and differentiation processes in cell death. The human body maintains a stable equilibrium between cell death and the breakdown of tissue and the regeneration of tissues in stem cells. Stems cells are also rebuilding tissues in your skin, muscle, or nerve cells. A human cell can live up to two days. Skin cells live up to four weeks. A lung cell dies around 80 days, and red blood cells die within 120 days. These two poteins are highly essential to make these tissues for the cells, and cannot regenrate without it.
This is fasinating and scary. This shows how every protein, cell, or whatever is needed to make the body function to produce the tissues needed in your body. It is crazy that if something is taken away from the ingredients to produce a tissue nothing will be made, and what is even crazier instead of regenrating it will degenrate it and will cause death within the cell! Researchers need to create some sort of pill to help regenrate the absent of proteins. what if your body is just uncapable of producing those proteins?
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