For large bone injuries, it’s Sonic hedgehog to the rescue
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17 May 2022For large bone injuries, it’s Sonic hedgehog to the rescue
A USC Stem Cell study in npj Regenerative Medicine presents intriguing evidence that large bone injuries might trigger a repair strategy in adults that recapitulates elements of skeletal formation in utero. Key to this repair strategy is a gene with a fittingly heroic name: Sonic hedgehog.
