Stem-cell niches It's the ecology, stupid!
Abstract
Stem cells are engaged in constant crosstalk with their environment, biologists are fast realizing. So the emerging field of regenerative medicine is now wrestling with the ecological concept of the niche. Kendall Powell reports.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- May 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1038/435268a
- Bibcode:
- 2005Natur.435..268P