Approaching a decades-old goal: Making blood stem cells from patients' own cells
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 - 13:51
in Health & Medicine
For the first time, researchers have generated blood-forming stem cells in the lab using pluripotent stem cells, which can make virtually every cell type in the body. The advance opens new avenues for research into the root causes of blood diseases and to creating immune-matched blood cells for treatment purposes, derived from patients' own cells.