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Stem cells in multiple time zones

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In fruitfly larvae, neural stem cells generate different cell types at different times. It emerges that these temporal progressions are controlled by multiple cascades of gene transcription factors. See Articles p.449 & p.456

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Figure 1: Time-dependent evolution of neural lineage trees.

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  1. *This article and the papers under discussion7,8 were published online on 19 June 2013.

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