Comment on "Magnetic resonance spectroscopy identifies neural progenitor cells in the live human brain". Jansen, J. F., Gearhart, J. D., & Bulte, J. W. Science, 321(5889):640, 2008. Jansen, Jacobus F A Gearhart, John D Bulte, Jeff W M eng Comment 2008/08/02 09:00 Science. 2008 Aug 1;321(5889):640. doi: 10.1126/science.1153997.
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Manganas et al. (Reports, 9 November 2007, p. 980) reported the discovery of a biomarker specific for neural progenitor cells detectable using magnetic resonance spectroscopy. A new algorithm was developed to extract the biomarker from noisy in vivo data. We question how this algorithm was validated, because the biomarker overlaps with peaks from nonspecific lipid signals.

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