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Nature Neuroscience 10, 673 - 674 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0607-673

Scent of a stem cell

Cynthia D Duggan1 & John Ngai1

  1. The authors are at the University of California, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute & Functional Genomics Laboratory, 269 Life Sciences Addition, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. e-mail: jngai@socrates.berkeley.edu


The olfactory epithelium is one of the few sites of adult neurogenesis, but the identity of its stem cell has been debated. A report by Leung and colleagues identifies the horizontal basal cell as this progenitor.

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