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Nature Genetics 40, 818 - 819 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ng0708-818
A new identity for the elusive intestinal stem cell
Eduard Batlle1
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Eduard Batlle is in the Institució Catalana de Recerca Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Oncology Programme at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona 08028, Spain.
e-mail: eduard.batlle@irbbarcelona.org
Abstract
The tremendous regenerative power of the intestinal epithelium has attracted considerable attention to the crypt as a model for adult stem cell biology. A new study now identifies the Polycomb group protein Bmi1 as a specific marker of intestinal stem cells in vivo.
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