Intercellular competition and levels of development: The plasticity of inevitability

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¹ Laboratory for the Study of Morphology, Mechanics and Molecules, Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802; eyl@psu.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103.
³ Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.

Comment

Robert B Eckhardt et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017.

. 2017 Dec 26;114(52):E11061-E11062.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1719479115. Epub 2017 Dec 12.

¹ Laboratory for the Study of Morphology, Mechanics and Molecules, Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802; eyl@psu.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103.
³ Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.

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