If two roads diverged in a yellow wood, random fluctuations
would influence which road stem cells traveled.
A new understanding of how stem cells choose among their possible
fates could aid development of stem cell therapies for diseases, scientists
say. A type of adult stem cell in bone marrow can develop along one of two
paths: either the red or white blood cell lineages.
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