New method developed to expand blood stem cells for bone marrow transplant
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
More than 50,000 stem cell transplants are performed each year worldwide. Scientists may have solved a major issue of expanding adult hematopoietic stem cells outside the human body for clinical use in bone marrow transplantation -- a critical step towards producing a large supply of blood stem cells needed to restore a healthy blood system.