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Chasing blood

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Many experiments have probed the mechanisms by which transplanted stem cells give rise to all the cell types of the blood, but it emerges that the process is different in unperturbed conditions. See Letter p.542

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Figure 1: A balance in the blood.

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  1. Sidhartha Goyal is in the Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada.,

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  2. Peter W. Zandstra is at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, and at the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto.,

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Goyal, S., Zandstra, P. Chasing blood. Nature 518, 488–490 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14203

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