Revisiting the bulge.
Two recent papers--one from the group of Elaine Fuchs in Science and the other from the group of George Costarelis in Nature Biotechnology--on the isolation and multipotentiality of adult hair follicle stem cells catapult us ahead in our understanding of epidermal and hair follicle lineages.
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Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4E9, Canada.
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