The people behind the papers - Salome Stierli and Alison Lloyd are interviewed about their recent publication in Development

"In contrast to nerves in the central nervous system, peripheral nerves are highly regenerative following injury. Regeneration is critically dependent on Schwann cells, the main glial cell type of the peripheral nervous system, but whether an additional stem cell or progenitor population also contributes has been a matter of contention. A paper in this issue of Development now addresses this issue with a characterisation of Schwann cell behaviour in the homeostatic and regenerating mouse peripheral nerve. We caught up with first author and PhD student Salome Stierli, and her supervisor Alison Lloyd, Professor of Cell Biology at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at University College London, to find out more about the story."

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