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Nature Genetics 40, 1269 - 1270 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ng1108-1269

A glorious revolution in stem cell biology

Bruce A Morgan1

  1. Bruce A. Morgan is at the Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA.
    e-mail: bruce.morgan@cbrc2.mgh.harvard.edu


A newly described Lgr5-expressing cell population is poised to depose the reigning monarch of the follicular hierarchy, the label-retaining cell, to claim the title as stem cell of the hair follicle.

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