Breathing life into the lung stem cell field.
In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Rawlins et al. (2009) use an elegant lineage-tracing system to circumvent technical obstacles that have long limited advances in lung stem cell research and, as a result, definitively clarify the role of Clara cells in lung growth, homeostasis, and repair.
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The Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA. afine@bu.edu
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