Tissue-specific blood stem cell line established from embryonic stem cells
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 13:47
in Biology & Nature
A research team at the Umea Centre for Molecular Medicine (UCMM) in Sweden, led by Professor Leif Carlsson, has managed to specifically establish and isolate the tissue-specific stem cell that produces blood cells (blood stem cell) by using genetically modified embryonic stem cells...
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