Family tree of blood production reveals hundreds of thousands of stem cells

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 - 13:20 in Biology & Nature

Adult humans have ten times more blood-creating stem cells in their bone marrow than previously thought, ranging between 50,000 and 200,000 stem cells. Researchers developed a new approach for studying stem cells, based on methods used in ecology.

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