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Tumour stem cells in bone

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Activation of the signalling molecule SHP2 is implicated in driving several cancers. In a newly described class of bone-progenitor cells, however, it seems that the protein acts as a tumour suppressor. See Letter p.491

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Figure 1: Regulation of chondrocyte formation.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 17 July.

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  1. Mone Zaidi and Simón Méndez-Ferrer are in the Mount Sinai Bone Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, USA.,

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  2. S. M.-F. is also at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.,

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