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Cell Stem Cell 2012 Feb;10(2):105-6
In response to infection, the bone marrow adjusts production of leukocyte cell types to fight off disease. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Hall et al. (2012) use the zebrafish model to show that nitric oxide (NO) production drives expansion of hematopoietic progenitors to produce more granulocytes.