New technique boosts efficiency of blood cell production from human stem cells

Friday, July 15, 2011 - 10:00 in Biology & Nature

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed an improved technique for generating large numbers of blood cells from a patient's own cells. The new technique will be immediately useful in further stem cell studies, and when perfected, could be used in stem cell therapies for a wide variety of conditions including cancers and immune ailments.

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