Novel way gene controls stem cell self-renewal

Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 22:00 in Biology & Nature

Stem cell scientists 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.

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