The international research team found a stem-cell niche in the growing bones that allows to produce new cells.

“The new mechanism of bone growth is based on a completely new principle of the stem-cell niche. It opens up fundamentally new approaches to treatment of children with growth disorders. When we find out what controls this niche, we will be able to regulate it. It will allow children with disabilities to grow as high as they want," – comments Dr. Andrey Chagin, head of the Laboratory for Tissue Regeneration of the Institute of Regenerative Medicine of Sechenov University.

The research results are published in the world’s science journal Nature.