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The work challenges a long-held biological principle: that most stem cells live in a fixed "niche," a physical location where neighboring cells dictate when to divide and what to become.

It was never going to be a quick fix, as she admitted after the game while cutting a despondent figure in her media duties.

Head coach Charlotte Edwards says she knew her job would "not be a quick fix" and things "won't change overnight" after England suffered a disappointing 125-run defeat by South Africa in the World Cup semi-finals.

“That’s why I’m talking to you on the telephone rather than trying to fix our defense with the Dallas Cowboys.”

Republicans are wrestling with their own pressures, namely whether to legislate short-term fixes for discrete shutdown problems or to let the messes mount and thereby push Democrats into capitulation.