Proliferating stem cells may be predominantly maintained by repeated asymmetric division outcomes or by population asymmetry, involving neutral competition among individual stem cell lineages.
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Hirata et al has identified a unique regulatory T cell population which highly expresses a HSC marker (CD150), acting as stem cell protectants from immune attack and oxidative stress.
Lina Sui shows that stem cells matched to a patient with type 1 diabetes can be differentiated with high efficiency to beta cells, and can protect mice from diabetes.
