Somatic Mutations as Markers for Size and Lifetimes of Blood Stem Cells
By Riya Gandhi ‘22 Despite the importance of hematopoiesis — a process that balances production and destruction of specialized blood cells — in the human body, scientists were unable to quantify the population size and lifetime dynamics that govern the process until now. Researchers from the Wellcome-Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, and…