A long-standing ambiguity has been whether quiescent cells located in intestinal crypt structures are stem cells. The answer seems to be yes and no, depending on how one defines the term stem cell. See Article p.65
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*This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 27 February 2013.
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Clevers, H. A unifying theory for the crypt. Nature 495, 53–54 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11958
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