Researchers Devise Means To Create Blood By Identifying Earliest Stem Cells

Saturday, August 30, 2008 - 00:29 in Biology & Nature

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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