Identification of stem cells in small intestine and colon by marker gene Lgr5

18 October 2007

The paper Identification of stem cells in small intestine and colon by marker gene Lgr5 was an advanced online publication in Nature, 14 October 2007, and has been published in issue 449: 1003-1007.

The work is the result of a collaboration between Professor Hans Clevers and his colleagues of the Hubrecht Institute and Professor Peter Peters and colleagues of the Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, The Netherlands.