Stem cells and leukemia battle for marrow microenvironment
Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 14:28
in Health & Medicine
Learning how leukemia takes over privileged "niches" within the bone marrow is helping researchers develop treatment strategies that could protect healthy blood-forming stem cells and improve the outcomes of bone marrow transplantation for leukemia and other types of cancer.
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