Cancer Scientists Discover Novel Way Gene Controls Stem Cell Self-Renewal
Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Stem cell scientists at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have discovered the gene GATA3 has a role in how blood stem cells renew themselves, a finding that advances the quest to expand these cells in the lab for clinical use in bone marrow transplantation, a procedure that saves thousands of lives every year.