The author is in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA. rando@stanford.edu
Adult stem cells can self-renew and can give rise to committed progenitors—but definitive evidence of cells with both properties is lacking in most tissues. A cell in skeletal muscle, the satellite cell, now meets these criteria.
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