Researchers devise means to create blood by identifying earliest stem cells
Friday, August 29, 2008 - 17:07
in Biology & Nature
Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered the earliest form of human blood stem cells and deciphered the mechanism by which these embryonic stem cells replicate and grow. They also found a surprising biological marker that pinpoints these stem cells, which serve as the progenitors for red blood cells and lymphocytes.
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