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Latexin is a newly discovered regulator of hematopoietic stem cells

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Deeply hidden in the bone marrow are rare hematopoietic stem cells that produce all types of blood cells in the circulatory system. A new study shows that the latexin gene affects the size of this population of cells.

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Figure 1: Somewhere within this heterogeneous bone marrow cell population are the most primitive of them all, the hematopoietic stem cells.

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