22 June 2025
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Cells capable of becoming all the different blood cell types are called haematopoietic stem cells. In adulthood they're mainly to be found in the bone marrow, but there's also a rare population in the spleen. Now, using spatial proximity imaging and cell-specific protein production analysis (proteomics), researchers have identified their whereabouts in the spleen and the nature of the niche they occupy that maintains them
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- Image from work by Shubham Haribhau Mehatre and colleagues
- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in The EMBO Journal, June 2025
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