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In April 2013, then 68-year-old John Ryan checked in with his primary care physician after he suddenly began to cough up trace amounts of blood. One emergency room trip and several tests later, the 30 ...

This work is published in Nature in the article, “Clonal tracing with somatic epimutations reveals dynamics of blood ageing.. In youth, humans have between 50,000 to 200,000 active blood stem ...