Stem cell dynamics in the intestine and stomach
B378 Seminar room, IBS 55 Expo-ro Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea, Republic ofIn adult tissues, stem cells undergo clonal competition because they proliferate while the stem cell niche provides limited space. This clonal competition allows the selection of healthy stem cells over time as unfit stem cells tend to lose from the competition. It could also be a mechanism to select a supercompetitor with tumorigenic mutations, which …