Homing Sweet Homing: Odyssey of Hematopoietic Stem Cells

The lineage relationship between the blood cells found in the developmentally successive hematopoietic organs has remained elusive. In this issue of Immunity, Murayama et al. (2006) track the migration of nascent hematopoietic stem cells in zebrafish from their site of origin to a newly described intermediate location.