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Tracing the potential of lung progenitors

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Transplanted lung progenitor cells give rise to specialized epithelial cells, raising new possibilities for treating lung disease.

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Figure 1: Schematic of lineage hierarchy and transplantation results.

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  1. John E. Mahoney and Carla F. Kim are in the Stem Cell Program at Boston Children's Hospital and the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,

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Mahoney, J., Kim, C. Tracing the potential of lung progenitors. Nat Biotechnol 33, 152–154 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3139

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